Changing opacity of text

[Guest]

I'm trying to change/access the opacity of a text object (Illustrator CC).

In the documents, I found that it's represented by a text frame object, but it doesn't have opacity property. Text range and character attributes don't have it either, so I'm wondering: is there any way of accessing/altering the opacity of a text object using Javascript?

[ThinkingThings]

This works in VB.NET if this is of any help...

Dim aDoc As AI.Document = app.ActiveDocument

  For Each pi In aDoc.PageItems

   Select Case TypeName(pi)

    Case "TextFrame"

     Dim tf As AI.TextFrame = pi

     tf.Opacity = 20  '20% Opacity

   End Select

  Next

[CarlosCanto]

it is not documented but text frames do have opacity property in Javascript, as stated above in vb as well.

yourTextFrame.opacity = 50; // 50% opacity

[W_J_T]

Hi Carlos, as inquired in this recent thread:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1350419?tstart=0

Does illustrator have the ability to change opacity at the per character level like in the UI via scripting?

[CarlosCanto]

I couldn't do it directly, the workaround is

- create a new character style manually with the opacity needed

- apply such character style to any textRange via scripting

[W_J_T]

CarlosCanto wrote:

I couldn't do it directly, the workaround is

- create a new character style manually with the opacity needed

- apply such character style to any textRange via scripting

Hi CarlosCanto, ok thanks for the heads up, I was unable to target it directly in my attempts either. Thanks for the workaround idea, that becomes a bit cumbersome if you have a large number of values desired however. It always amazes me how many of the UI features are inaccessible via scripting (sigh). Thanks again for responding.