Select Character and replace font?

[rcraighead]

Another simple script I don't know how to write:

I want to search for a specific character (♥) and change the font to "ZapfDingbatsITC". I've tried to find and change similar scripts but nothing is working for me.

Thanks for any help.

[pixxxelschubser]

for the beginning: Need to remove some characters in the text in active document

Question: which font (and unicode) does your heart (♥) has in your document?

Maybe do you have an example document for us (+ screenshots before/after for comparison)

[rcraighead]

pixxxel schubser

Thanks for your interest.

Yes. Heart Unicode is U+2665.

Before/After

Sample File: Dropbox - Sample1.ai

File fonts

[pixxxelschubser · Accepted solution]

Thank you for the example file.

I don't have ZapfDingbatsITC on my computer. That's why I use another font in the script snippets.

At first create a textFrame with one character with your ZapfDingbats - and run this line of code:

alert (app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].textRange.characters[0].textFont);

You will need the exact name later for the next script snippet.

Use the font name for ZapfDingbats in line #10 instead and save this script.

// regards pixxxel schubser
var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
var aTF = aDoc.textFrames[0];
var reg = /\u2665/g;
var res, idx;
while (res = reg.exec(aTF.contents))
{
    idx = res.index;
    aTF.textRange.characters[idx].textFont = app.textFonts.getByName("MS-UIGothic");  // or whatever textFont you want
};

This works for the first text frame in the document (as your example file).

Have fun

[rcraighead]

pixxxel schubser​

That is perfect! Thanks so much. I'll try to learn from this.

[wesleyh57554615]

Is there a way to search all text boxes (or selected text boxes) in the document and swap the character if it is in multiple text boxes?

I have zero knowledge to scripting in Illustrator and have to swap a ton of standard "0" that is within a word with a different font that has a slash through the zero. 

I was able to get it to work on the first text box only but it does not apply to all text boxes in the document.

Please help!

Thanks!