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

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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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Roland KahlenbergCorrect answer

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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 KahlenbergCorrect answer

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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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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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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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