Change to font Weight (For example Arial-Bold)

[yon1313]

Hello,

Im using this code and im trying to change weight font in my text layer.

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text");
var textDocument = textProp.value;
textDocument.font = "Arial-Bold";
textProp.setValue(textDocument);

But this does not Changing the font to the "Arial-Bold" font,

What did I do wrong?

[Tomas Sinkunas · Accepted solution]

It's not Arial-Bold, but rather Arial-BoldMT

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text");
var textDocument = textProp.value;
textDocument.font = "Arial-BoldMT";
textProp.setValue(textDocument);

[yon1313]

Thanks for your answer!

Yes it works good in this case,

But what should it do in the other situations?

like when i want the font to be "Arial-Narrow",

and "Arial-NarrowMT" not working.

So what is actually the method to work with weight font ?

[Tomas Sinkunas]

Well, all you have to do is:

1. Set font you like manually.

2. Run this command to see what it prints.

3. Use this value in your script.

var textProp = app.project.activeItem.layer(1).property("Source Text"); 
var textDocument = textProp.value;
alert(textDocument.font)