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RKahlenberg
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June 18, 2024
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Unable to use Text Styling (setFontSize - leading, tracking) for text.sourceText Essential Property

  • June 18, 2024
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Strangely, I can use setText() but the other Text Styling Properties for setFontSize, setLeading and setTracking do nothing in the Nested/Essential Property Comp.  

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Correct answer Roland Kahlenberg

Hi Theresa, thanks for the reply. While prepping an AEP for you, I dug in a little deeper.

It's a user-error on my part. 😞

In the earlier Nesting Procedure, in the Parent Comp, I had the FontSize Property in the text.sourceText Expression linked to another property.  😄

So, everything works as expected. 

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Roland Kahlenberg
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June 20, 2024

Hi Theresa, thanks for the reply. While prepping an AEP for you, I dug in a little deeper.

It's a user-error on my part. 😞

In the earlier Nesting Procedure, in the Parent Comp, I had the FontSize Property in the text.sourceText Expression linked to another property.  😄

So, everything works as expected. 

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Roland Kahlenberg
Roland Kahlenberg
Legend
June 23, 2024

Ooops! It's not working. 

It's the issue where changing the text.sourceText of a Text Layer Essential Property disables changing Text Styling. 

If I do not edit text.sourceText for the Text Layer Essential Property then changing fontStyling works.
I believe this is a known issue. Is there a workaround or an expected fix to this?

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Theresa Rostek
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Theresa RostekCommunity Manager
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June 19, 2024

Hi @RKahlenberg,

 

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Would you mind sending over a project so I can diagnose what's going wrong? Also are you seeing this on Windows or Mac?

Thanks!
Theresa

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