illustrator javascript for "Identify overset text in a text frame and reduce the font size"

Hi all, for anyone finding this old thread, also please have a look at @femkeblanco's answer here. - Mark

Thank you so much for your help.

But the script only run on selected text frame.

i want to identify the overset text and reduce the font size for all overset text frames.

#target illustrator

function test(){

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var sel = doc.selection[0];

var contents = sel.contents;

for(var i = 0; i < sel.lines.length; i++){

contents = contents.replace(sel.lines.contents, "");

}

alert(contents);

    reduceSizeOfOversetText(app.selection[0]); 

};

test();

function reduceSizeOfOversetText(t) { 

        var d; 

        while ( 

            d = t.duplicate(), 

            d.name = 'temp', 

            d.convertAreaObjectToPointObject(), 

            d = t.parent.textFrames['temp'], 

            d.contents.replace(/[\x03\r]/g, '') !== t.contents.replace(/[\x03\r]/g, '') 

        ) { 

            d.remove(); 

            t.textRange.characterAttributes.size -= 1; 

} 

        d.remove(); 

    } 

kindly help on this.

Regards

Ashok

Hi Silly-V

As per your guidance selected text frame overset text is showing correctly. but i want to identify the overset text and reduce the font to fix the overset text.below code shows only the entire line like screenshot & code attached below.

function texts(){

if(documents.length > 0)

{

   var docRef = activeDocument;

   // clear the old selection

   var piArr=[];

   activeDocument.selection = null;

  //var contents = sel.contents;

   // select all text art items that contain the target string

   for (j = 0; j < docRef.textFrames.length; j++){

  // var t=docRef.textFrames

//var t=docRef.textFrames

var t=docRef.textFrames

contents=t.contents

        for(var i = 0; i < t.lines.length; i++){

          contents = contents.replace(t.lines.contents, "");

//piArr.push(contents);

alert(contents)

piArr.push(contents);

   //   alert(t.textRange.size);

       if(contents!=""){

        var fs=t.textRange.size

         if (fs<=6)

    {

alert(fs+"small font"+"Still overset") 

//exit();

}

else

{

   t.textRange.characterAttributes.size = fs-1

   s()

  }

}

else

{

}

//var t=docRef.textFrames

//contentString = docRef.textFrames.contents;//  contentString.lines.length;

// var contents = docRef.textFrames.contents;

  //contentString.length;

}

}}

function s(){

if(piArr=="")

{

    exit()

    }else{

   alert("still overset")

texts()

}}

}

   //redraw();

//}

//}

texts()

Regards

Ashok

Thank you for your reply. the above code is for selected text frame(frame need to selected manually) but my request is in an illustrator document where there are more than 100 textframes and i need to identify the overset text and reduce the fontsize of the overset text in all the 100 text frame.

Kindly help me on this please.

Regards

Ashok

Let's make a text overset function which detects the overset on multiline text.

There may be several ways to accomplish this, I am thinking of the following:

1. Read the text of the entire text area and take note of it in a variable.
2. Go through every line of the text area and replace the text in the variable previously defined by taking the line's text and removing it from the text contents.
3. If all the lines were showing without overset, the result of the contents variable should be an empty string.
4. If there was overset, then some of the contents did not get replaced by some of the lines which were hidden below the frame.

Here is a snippet to start you off:

#target illustrator

function test(){

  var doc = app.activeDocument;

  var sel = doc.selection[0];

  var contents = sel.contents;

  for(var i = 0; i < sel.lines.length; i++){

    contents = contents.replace(sel.lines.contents, "");

  }

  alert(contents);

};

test();