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lvoer
lvoer
New Participant
March 16, 2019
Question

How to Count Characters in a Line

  • March 16, 2019
  • 4 replies
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How would you go about counting the number of characters in a line?

"

The door closed slowly

There was no water

"

For example, the first line has 19 characters and the second line has 15 characters.

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jane-e
jane-e
Community Expert
March 17, 2019

lvoer  wrote

How would you go about counting the number of characters in a line?

This would be a great feature request and it can be made here:

Adobe Illustrator Feedback

In InDesign you can use the Info panel and click to get a word count of the entire story or select to get a word count of the selection. I would see this working about the same way if it were implemented in Illustrator.

    CarlosCanto
    CarlosCanto
    Community Expert
    March 16, 2019

    try the script in this post

    Re: word-count in illustrator?

      tromboniator
      tromboniator
      Community Expert
      March 17, 2019

      Hi, Carlos,

      The script isn't working for me with my current configuration:

      MacOS 10.14.3

      Illustrator 23.0.2

      Peter

      CarlosCanto
      CarlosCanto
      Community Expert
      March 17, 2019

      Hi Peter, sorry about that, please download again, I fixed it.

      thanks for letting me know.

      Jacob Bugge
      Jacob Bugge
      Community Expert
      March 16, 2019

      lvoer,

      You can also copy each line (or whichever amount of text) into a new word processor document and see it in the File>Properties.

      Monika Gause
      Monika Gause
      Community Expert
      March 16, 2019

      Illustrator doesn't have such a function. So unless there is a script ...

      In InDesign you can do this.

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