Unable to use Text Styling (setFontSize - leading, tracking) for text.sourceText Essential Property

[RKahlenberg]

Strangely, I can use setText() but the other Text Styling Properties for setFontSize, setLeading and setTracking do nothing in the Nested/Essential Property Comp.  

[Theresa Rostek]

Hi @RKahlenberg,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. Would you mind sending over a project so I can diagnose what's going wrong? Also are you seeing this on Windows or Mac?

Thanks!
Theresa

[Roland Kahlenberg · Accepted solution]

Hi Theresa, thanks for the reply. While prepping an AEP for you, I dug in a little deeper.

It's a user-error on my part. 😞

In the earlier Nesting Procedure, in the Parent Comp, I had the FontSize Property in the text.sourceText Expression linked to another property.  😄

So, everything works as expected. 

[Roland Kahlenberg]

Ooops! It's not working. 

It's the issue where changing the text.sourceText of a Text Layer Essential Property disables changing Text Styling. 

If I do not edit text.sourceText for the Text Layer Essential Property then changing fontStyling works.
I believe this is a known issue. Is there a workaround or an expected fix to this?