Text Thickness

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March 6, 2017
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Hello Everyone,

Is it possible to find the text thickness used in Indesign document? So far am using Pitstop for detecting those errors in PDF and it is also require some visual inspection.

I just want to know if it possible or not? I am thinking if i do outline all texts and check the thickness. But not sure i can achieve this,

Thanks,

K

Scripting

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Correct answer Trevor:

Thanks Trevor.. I'm keeping my fingers crossed

Hi Again,

I published a post on the script.

InDesign Thin Font Finder | Creative-Scripts.com

I'm not planning on regularly directing from the forum to my site for questions that I answer but in this case I think most that see the post there will agree it's appropriate.

Regards

HTH

Trevor

Loic.Aigon

Legend

Dummy me

Loic.Aigon

Legend

You are so right but what about those who don't own a font editor and what about the users interested in a generic check

Jongware

Community Expert

Loic, shame on you for not thinking inside the box You don't actually need a font editor (I could have mentioned that, but hey, what's a help forum without the occasional spoon feeding?).

Type the character of interest at 1000 pts. Measure the distance of interest. Divide by 1000. Now you have your multiplication factor, for that position, for any font size.

(You don't even literally have to use 1,000 pts exactly, as this will work for every possible size, which was my main point. But a lot of fonts have a one thousand units design size, and with good grid settings you will see the path points snap to 'logical' places inside the character.)

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi Trevor,

OMG.. AWESOME.. Eagerly waiting to check the script with my document..

Thanks you so much

K

Hi Kartik,

would Trevor's script be helpful to you?

I mean, I still don't understand fully what is required by your customer.
Should a single dot be measured? The smallest edge of a serif in a glyph?
I think, that would be really insane.

Trevor's script is looking great. And it is blazingly fast.
Well done, Trevor! I'm "enthusiasmerized" :-)

As I understand your algorithm you are testing on a capital "T" only with your first version.
Maybe that could be expanded to other glyphs like "l"s or "i"s. Or dashes…

Thanks a lot!
Uwe

Loic.Aigon

Legend

IF I remember well my high school mathematics, one possible algoritm would be to create outlines and then split the shape into a myriad of extra thin slices, as small as one can consider it's a rectangle. Then you could compute height of this shape to ensure about thickness. But I guess that in best cases, even a document made of one character would take ages to compute in ExtendScript.