Adobe Illustrator Script for Annotations

[simonh71727263]

Does anyone know if there is a Adobe Illustrator script capable of creating an annotation like this?

More specifically, drawing a stroked box around the text and showing the formatting info to the side?

Thanks

Simon

[femkeblanco]

This should give you the properties of a selected textFrame in an alert window. 

var text1 = app.selection[0];
  if (text1 == undefined || text1.typename != "TextFrame") {
    alert("You did not select a textFrame.");
  } else {
    alert("family:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.family + "\
Name:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.name + "\
Style:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.style + "\
Size:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.size + "\
Leading:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.leading + "\
Tracking:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.tracking);
  }

It is possible to make it into text in the document, but then you will have to delete it once you have finished with it. 

[simonh71727263]

That's amazing thanks Femkeblanco

[femkeblanco · Accepted solution]

Alternatively, see if this works for you:

var text1 = app.selection[0];
  if (text1 == undefined || text1.typename != "TextFrame") {
    alert("You did not select a textFrame.");
  } else {
var string = "Family:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.family + "\
Name:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.name + "\
Style:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.style + "\
Size:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.size + "\
Leading:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.leading + "\
Tracking:  " + text1.textRange.characterAttributes.tracking;
  }
var top = app.selection[0].position[1];
var left = app.selection[0].position[0];
var h = app.selection[0].height;
var w = app.selection[0].width;
var rect1 = app.activeDocument.pathItems.rectangle(top, left, w, h);
rect1.strokeColor = app.activeDocument.swatches["CMYK Cyan"].color;
rect1.strokeWidth = 2.5;
rect1.filled = false;
var rect2 = app.activeDocument.pathItems.rectangle(top, left-200, 200, 200);
rect2.stroked = false;
var text2 = app.activeDocument.textFrames.areaText(rect2);
text2.contents = string;
text2.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont = textFonts["ArialMT"];
text2.textRange.characterAttributes.size = 15;
text2.textRange.fillColor = app.activeDocument.swatches["CMYK Cyan"].color;

[simonh71727263]

Thanks so much, that's exactly what I was looking for. Could it also work on selected text rather than the text frame?

[femkeblanco]

I may be mistaken, but, no, I don't think so. 

[simonh71727263]

Thanks so much, you've been a great help

[Inventsable]

Wouldn't you be able to use TextFrame.textSelection?

[femkeblanco]

You're right, but I think this will only work for a script-targeted and not a user-selected textFrame (although this may not matter if all you have is one textFrame in the document).  Also, while you can get the required properties, I can't think of a way to draw a rectangle around a selected textRange. Again, I may be mistaken though.