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Text Thickness

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March 6, 2017
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Hello Everyone,

Is it possible to find the text thickness used in Indesign document? So far am using Pitstop for detecting those errors in PDF and it is also require some visual inspection.

I just want to know if it possible or not? I am thinking if i do outline all texts and check the thickness. But not sure i can achieve this,

Thanks,

K

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Correct answer Trevor:

Thanks Trevor.. I'm keeping my fingers crossed

Hi Again,

I published a post on the script.

InDesign Thin Font Finder | Creative-Scripts.com

I'm not planning on regularly directing from the forum to my site for questions that I answer but in this case I think most that see the post there will agree it's appropriate.

Regards

HTH

Trevor

Loic.Aigon

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Dummy me

Loic.Aigon

Legend

You are so right but what about those who don't own a font editor and what about the users interested in a generic check

Jongware

Community Expert

Loic, shame on you for not thinking inside the box You don't actually need a font editor (I could have mentioned that, but hey, what's a help forum without the occasional spoon feeding?).

Type the character of interest at 1000 pts. Measure the distance of interest. Divide by 1000. Now you have your multiplication factor, for that position, for any font size.

(You don't even literally have to use 1,000 pts exactly, as this will work for every possible size, which was my main point. But a lot of fonts have a one thousand units design size, and with good grid settings you will see the path points snap to 'logical' places inside the character.)

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Jongware,

the question is, if the task of meassuring can be automated somehow.

I see no way.* At least no fast and reliable way…

Wrapped my head around this problem. Took it as an intellectual challenge.

Also developed a hopefully sufficient substitute for path.shape (Adobe Illustrator) for InDesign that would require a lot of processing time and is far from perfect. And finally found an algorithm to get the center of an arbitary shape with InDesign scripting only. It is based on the solution Quertifly is pointing at with changing the stroke weight of a shape in Illustrator. But would that help?

* Maybe I see a way now while typing this:

It would require to do sections of the path and subpaths of a glyph to break down the problem to smaller pieces.
And inspect the smaller pieces one by one.

But here comes the next obstacle:

How can we break a shape like the "e" to substantial and handy parts?

Seems the whole operation would require a lot of processing time if that is possible at all.

Meassuring by "mouse" would be faster and more precise ;-)

Regards,
Uwe

Loic.Aigon

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IF I remember well my high school mathematics, one possible algoritm would be to create outlines and then split the shape into a myriad of extra thin slices, as small as one can consider it's a rectangle. Then you could compute height of this shape to ensure about thickness. But I guess that in best cases, even a document made of one character would take ages to compute in ExtendScript.