Changing opacity of text

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November 26, 2013
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I'm trying to change/access the opacity of a text object (Illustrator CC).

In the documents, I found that it's represented by a text frame object, but it doesn't have opacity property. Text range and character attributes don't have it either, so I'm wondering: is there any way of accessing/altering the opacity of a text object using Javascript?

Scripting

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CarlosCanto

Community Expert

it is not documented but text frames do have opacity property in Javascript, as stated above in vb as well.

yourTextFrame.opacity = 50; // 50% opacity

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W_J_T

Inspiring

Hi Carlos, as inquired in this recent thread:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1350419?tstart=0

Does illustrator have the ability to change opacity at the per character level like in the UI via scripting?

CarlosCanto

Community Expert

I couldn't do it directly, the workaround is

- create a new character style manually with the opacity needed

- apply such character style to any textRange via scripting

ThinkingThings

Inspiring

This works in VB.NET if this is of any help...

Dim aDoc As AI.Document = app.ActiveDocument

For Each pi In aDoc.PageItems

Select Case TypeName(pi)

Case "TextFrame"

Dim tf As AI.TextFrame = pi

tf.Opacity = 20 '20% Opacity

End Select

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