[Scripting] Convert Point text to paragraph text?

[vigi42]

I am trying to convert point text to paragraph text and vice versa through scripting. There is already a discusion here from 2015 https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/convert-point-text-to-paragraph-text/m-p/73... which states that these attributes are read only and the suggestion is to create a new layer and copy all properties from original layer here.

However in discusion here https://community.adobe.com/t5/after-effects-discussions/copy-keyframe-value-from-quot-levels-quot-e... for different topic, it is said that custom value properties cannot be copied. So this approach isnt bulletproof.

Is there a better approach i can take i am not thinking of? Or is my best solution to go through all the attributes and copy them hoping there wont be any custom value properties and if so, let the user know? Is there anything that would not be copied by this approach other than the custom value properties?

Thank you,

Martin

[Mylenium]

No change on that front, I'm afraid, and you can't even work your way around this with the various new text formatting options that have been introduced in recent versions.

Mylenium

[Mathias Moehl · Accepted solution]

As far as I know there is no better solution, unfortunately. And the issue are not just custom value properties - text attributes like faux bold, all caps, superscript, etc cannot be copied via scripting either.

[vigi42]

Thank you both for your answers, hopefully one day the technology will be here.