JSX Script accessing GlyphBounds

[#1]

With the latest udpate of Illustrator it is possible to align to glyph bounds. Can the value of these glyph bounds be accessed via ExtendScript?

[#2]

With the latest udpate of Illustrator it is possible to align to glyph bounds. Can the value of these glyph bounds be accessed via ExtendScript?

[#3]

I just saw the new buttons after updating.
It seems to work on point-text better than area-text.
So, while they might have added new scripting commands along with this feature, to my current knowledge there's no scripting way to do this, yet. But there's the next-best way which only adds a tiny bit of time to your script execution: you first duplicate your text in question and convert it to outlines. The characters, even if they are made up of several non-touching shapes, should all transfer over into compound paths. Thus you can get the bounding coordinates as you wish. I bet under the hood, they do the same thing but are using the powers of C++ plugins to do this ultra-fast.

[#4]

Thanks for the suggestion. The outlined text has bounds that are close to but not quite the same as the plain text glyphbounds

[#5]

Hey, I'm new to this - can you please explain the difference between the outlines and what the 'plain text glyphbounds' are?

[#6]

Unfortunately none of the new features were added to the Scripting API. There are zero scripting updates on the 24.3 release.

[#7]

Hopefully they will be added in a future release