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Glynn_Alexander
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June 30, 2013
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Split Text into Layers

  • June 30, 2013
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I was wondering if anyone is aware of a script that is able to do the same as this photoshop one http://www.agasyanc.ru/text-splitter, I would use that one in photoshop but its not working in CS6.

I  was hoping to find a script that will seperate the text into layers  ready for export to After Effects to be used in Kinetic Typography  pieces

thank you

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W_J_T
Inspiring
July 8, 2013

You could try using the PhotoShop script you posted, then bring things into Illustrator from PhotoShop.

Importing artwork from Photoshop

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/illustrator/cs/using/WS714a382cdf7d304e7e07d0100196cbc5f-6566a.html

Illustrator supports most Photoshop data, including layer comps, layers, editable text, and paths. This means that you can transfer files between Photoshop and Illustrator without losing the ability to edit the artwork.

That could be one possible no so elegant alternative, maybe see if it works for your needs.

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Gustavo Del Vechio
Inspiring
July 8, 2013

So what you want is to separate each word of a text into a separated layer.

Well, do not know any script to do it. Not so easy, but it does not mean it´s impossible to write one. Perhaps the difficult you will have is to get the words in the same artboard´s position. Also, you must know text located in contents like symbols are not able to be acessed by JavaScript. So, if the text is an isolated object or inside single groups, it´s easier to read via script. 

You can find more informations about scripting in Illustrator in the manual: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/scripting.html

If you have any difficult writting, you could post here and I can help you.

Best Regards

Gustavo.

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Glynn_AlexanderAuthor
Participant
July 8, 2013

thanks, got the script I found working in photoshop with an edit or two as it was not working within macs

would love to get it working in illustrator though, must be the same basic principles.

doc = app.activeDocument;

layer = doc.activeLayer;

var text = layer.textItem.contents;

var textArray = text.split(" ") || text.split("/r");

var pos = layer.textItem.position;

var leading = 0;

try { layer.textItem.leading; } catch (e) { layer.textItem.useAutoLeading = true; }

if (layer.textItem.useAutoLeading){

        leading = layer.textItem.size/100*Math.round(layer.textItem.autoLeadingAmount)

    

}

else{

    leading = Number(layer.textItem.leading)

}

layer.textItem.contents=textArray[0]

layer.name = textArray[0]

for (var k=1; k<textArray.length;k++){

    tmp = layer.duplicate();

    tmp.textItem.position = [pos[0], pos[1]+(Number(leading)*k)]

    tmp.textItem.contents = textArray;

}

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