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How to Count Characters in a Line

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March 16, 2019
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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.

jane-e

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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

Community Expert

try the script in this post

Re: word-count in illustrator?

tromboniator

Community Expert

Hi, Carlos,

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

MacOS 10.14.3

Illustrator 23.0.2

Peter

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

Thanks, Carlos. I was going to send you some pristine Alaskan sunshine for one of those rare moments you might need it, but…I missed my moment.

my pleasure Peter, it's never too late

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

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

Community Expert

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

In InDesign you can do this.

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