Font check script?

[BFishY]

Hi, I have a minimum font requirement of 8pt. In Indesign you can specify the document to report back when any text is less than 8pt font via the Preflight feature. I would love a script like this for Illustrator. Problem is I know next to nothing about scripts. Any good starting point or best advice on how I can accomplish this font check?

Thank you,

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[o-marat]

If a script, you have to check every character in every frame... If your document has a lot of text, the check will be delayed for a long time.

[Silly-V]

If they have Indesign, it may be possible to do an over-the-top cross-app script to paste over all text frames and run a font-check. Or maybe I'm just full of crazy-talk

[Silly-V]

Let's try this test and see how long it takes for your document.

#target illustrator
function test() {
    function checkTextFrameChars(textFrame) {
        var thisChar;
        for (var i = 0; i < textFrame.characters.length; i++) {
            thisChar = textFrame.characters;
            if (thisChar.characterAttributes.size < 8) {
                thisChar.select(true);
            }
        };
    };
    var doc = app.activeDocument,
        thisFrame, startTime = new Date().getTime();
    for (var i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) {
        thisFrame = doc.textFrames;
        checkTextFrameChars(thisFrame);
    };
    app.redraw();
    alert("All characters smaller than 8pt should be selected, process took " + ((new Date().getTime() - startTime) / 1000) + " seconds.");
};
test();

[o-marat]

Fast enough (but Silly-V is faster )) ). It remains now to find out what to do next.

[subieguy2]

I do something similar to this for my documents. I just force anything lower than my minimum....to my minimum. Just thought I would share although Silly-V​ is much better solution.

#target Illustrator  
var doc = app.activeDocument;  
for (i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++)  
    {  
        var allText = doc.textFrames;  
        var allTextAttributes = allText.textRange.characterAttributes;  
        //alert(allTextAttributes.size);  
        if (allTextAttributes.size < 8)
  {
        //alert("less than 5");
  allTextAttributes.size = (8);
  }
   } 

[Silly-V]

I wouldn't say 'much better' - only that one goes character-deep to account for variations within a text frame is all