Installed fonts

Hello!

I needed to do a font test today.

With fontName as it is typed in the character window font dropdown, this code seems to work...

var fontName = "Times New Roman";

var fontExists = false;

try {

    ScriptUI.newFont(fontName, "REGULAR", 1);

    fontExists = true;

} catch(err) {}

if (fontExists) alert("Font exists!");

else alert("Font does not exist!");

As far as getting a list of available machine fonts, I can't seem find a solution so...help needed!

The 'newFont()' function has to look it up...so why can't we? I'm pretty sure you can for InDesign

Jack

I don't know of any way currentlyt to get all the installed fonts, but if you just need to know if a font is installed, you could just set your text layer (or maybe a temporary text layer) to that font, read the font back and see if they match:

var myFontName = "xxxx";

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;

var myTextLayer = myComp.layer(1);

var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");

var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;

myTextDoc.font = myFontName;

mySourceText.setValue(myTextDoc);

myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;

if (myTextDoc.font != myFontName) alert ("failed");

Something like that.

Dan