Selected text box, new text box with used font name

[siomosp]

Hi!

I have a document with some text boxes, all have same text, each one  different font.

I would like to create at the side of each selected text box a new one with the name of the font

Any ideas how i can do it?

Panagiotis

[meganchi]

I would suggest splitting the font name into its own text box so that as you copy each individual text box it retains the font name specs. If you don't want to have it within its own text box, then create a character style that you can apply to the font name.

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

select your text frames and try this script

// add selection text font
// carlos canto - 03/18/2020
// https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/selected-text-box-new-text-box-with-used-font-name/td-p/10988655?page=1

function main() {
    var idoc = app.activeDocument;
    var sel = idoc.selection;
    
    var dup, t, spacing = 40;
    
    for (var a=0; a<sel.length; a++) {
        f = sel[a];
        dup = idoc.textFrames.add();
        dup.contents = f.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.name;
        dup.left = f.left + f.width + spacing;
        dup.top = f.top;
    }
}

main();

[siomosp]

It is working perfectly!!

Thank you, Carlos

[CarlosCanto]

awesome!!