Find text Tint Value

[tpk1982]

Hi All,

I need to check whether any character have opacity.  I tried the following codings, but it shows all characters as error.

var myframe = app.activeDocument.textFrames;  
for(i=0; i<myframe.length; i++)  
{  
    var myCharacters = myframe.characters;  
    for(j=0; j<myCharacters.length; j++)  
    {  
         if(myCharacters.opacity != 100)  
         {  
             alert("Error: Check some text has opacity")  
             }  
        }  
    }  

Regards,

Karthi

[tpk1982]

Hi Team,

Can i get any suggestions please.

Regards,

Karthi

[Ten A]

Probably, We can’t access characters opacity from script.

[tpk1982]

Hi TenA,

Thanks for the prompt response.

Please suggest me, If there is alternate way to get the opacity value of character.

Regards,

Karthi

[b91823603]

Hi Karthi,

Try this

myCharacters.fillColor.tint = val;

Make sure that you are using spot color type for character fill color. It works for me.

[tpk1982]

Hi b91823603

I tried

myCharacters.fillColor.tint = val;

but it is not working. More over most of my text is in black color.

var myframe = app.activeDocument.textFrames; 
for(i=0; i<myframe.length; i++) 
{ 
    var myCharacters = myframe.characters; 
    for(j=0; j<myCharacters.length; j++) 
    { 
        if(myCharacters.fillColor.tint != 100 )  
        { 
            alert("Error: Check some text has opacity") 
            } 
        } 
    } 

Is it the way i used is correct?

Regards,

Karthi

[b91823603]

Hi Karthi,

Your code is correct. Check the character color type in illustrator. If it is Spot color then only it will produce result.

[tpk1982]

Hi b91823603,

Yes i used Spot colors but it is not working yet. As Ten A said, i don't thing we can find, just a thought.

Regards,

Karthi

[Laubender]

Probably, We can’t access characters opacity from script.

Hi Ten A,

I'm not so much into Illustrator scripting, but just inspected the Illustrator ExtendScript DOM where I found some properties for transparency and opacity for the TextPath Object.

Example:

myTextPath.blendingMode = BlendModes.NORMAL;
myTextPath.opacity = 50;

For individual characters there is no property opacity, but for the whole textPath there is.
I looked it up in Jongware's excellent Adobe Illustrator CS6 Object Reference here:

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[Ten A]

We can set characters opacity manually, But, we can’t check characters opacity from script.

In case like below, I was set characters[1](b)’s opacity as 50%.

Check parent textFrame properties using Property Explorer:

We got 100% of textFrames opacity. So we can’t check characters opacity from script.