Why doesn't app.fonts work in AE?

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August 12, 2019
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In this discussion at stack overflow it shows you can find the fonts available to Photoshop by looking at the app.fonts property.

But of course that doesn't work in After Effects because Adobe.

Is there a way of listing the available fonts so that I can write a script that lets the user choose a font, without having to use the shell?

For bonus points: why is Extendscript Toolkit stuck in 2011?

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Tomas Sinkunas

Legend

app.fonts does not work in AE simply because the app object does not have such property: http://docs.aenhancers.com/general/application/

Check out this thread - maybe this will help you get the list of fonts https://forums.adobe.com/message/8219999#8219999

Regarding ESTK - it's been substituted with a VSCode plugin:

https://medium.com/adobetech/extendscript-debugger-for-visual-studio-code-public-release-a2ff6161fa01

ExtendScript Debugger - Visual Studio Marketplace

stibAuthor

Inspiring

I figured the app had no such property, I was asking why that would be. I can't understand why After Effects and Photoshop and all the gang wouldn't share the same basic font object in their code? Aren't the developers at Adobe allowed out of their cubicles to talk to each other?

I looked at that other thread, and seems the answer is basically "computer says no". It looks like I have to kludge something together using the shell.

Great news about the VSCode plugin! I was using some third party plugins to run scripts from VSCode, so having a full debugger is great. I only hope we can get some linting that doesn't think that my .jsx files are react-js files.

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