Find text and redefine font family name, style, size and leading.

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi Teams, For my request, I need to find a word in a paragragh and redefine the font family name, style, size and leading.

Ex. a sample snap attached here.

For this snap: Word "consectetur" font size is 30pt, and i need to find the text and redefince font family name, style, size and leading with new value. Thanks

[Kukurykus]

Can you mark correct answer in previous thread you created, or if there is not any that satisfy your expectations, to say why? Text is overset text?

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi @Kukurykus, still that request is work in progress and will let you know as soon as possible the status. Kindly review my new request. I need to find a text and redefine character format based custom puts. Like as if font size is 30. I need to add extre 2 point and results 32 is applied in the finded text. Your help much appreciated ☺️

[Kukurykus]

The best answer you can get for now from r-bin linked thread 😉

[r-bin]

There is something similar here:

Specific character changing to Small Caps

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi @r-bin, Thanks a ton.

i will helpful to redefine font name.

Addtionaly i request you to, I need to find a text and redefine character format based custom inputs. Like as if font size is 30. I need to add extre 2 point and results 32 is applied in the finded text. Your help much appreciated ☺️

Ex: the word Consectetur font size is 30, I need to redefine the value as 32, if 50 means it need to redefine as 52.
Same as leading if leading 94 means i need to find current leading value and add 2, then redefine the new value 96 same finding words.

Thanks

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

Everything is not so simple and reliable there. In general, it is impossible to correctly change the properties of the text (depends on the text)

Try this

var s = activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.contents;

var x1 = s.indexOf("consectetur");
if (x1 >= 0) set_text_style(x1, "consectetur".length, mdf); 
 

function mdf(d) 
    {
    try { 
        var sz_v = d.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("impliedFontSize"));
        var sz_t = d.getUnitDoubleType(stringIDToTypeID("impliedFontSize"));
        d.putUnitDouble(stringIDToTypeID("impliedFontSize"), sz_t, sz_v+2);


        var sz_v = d.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID("impliedLeading"));
        var sz_t = d.getUnitDoubleType(stringIDToTypeID("impliedLeading"));
        d.putUnitDouble(stringIDToTypeID("impliedLeading"), sz_t, sz_v+2);
        }
    catch (e) { throw (e); }
    }

function set_text_style(from, len, style_modifier) 
    { 
    try { 
        // get textKey descriptor for activeLayer

        var r = new ActionReference(); 
        r.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum")); 
        var textKey = executeActionGet(r).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("textKey"));

        var list = textKey.getList(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"));
        var new_list = new ActionList(); 

        // get styles of each char, modify if needed
        var styles = new Array();           

        var x = 0; // chars counter

        for (var i = 0; i < list.count; i++)
            {
            var d = list.getObjectValue(i);

            var x0 = d.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("from"));
            var x1 = d.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID("to"));

            var st = d.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"));

            for (var n = 0; n < x1-x0; n++)
                {
                if (x >= from && x < from+len) // modify current style
                    {
                    var d = new ActionDescriptor(); 
                    d.fromStream(st.toStream()); // duplicate style
                    style_modifier(d);           // modify current style
                    styles.push(d);
                    }
                else
                    {
                    styles.push(st);
                    }

                ++x;
                }
            }

        styles.push(new ActionDescriptor());

        // scan styles, modify if needed, compact to range (from-to)

        var from = 0;

        for (var i = 0; i < styles.length-1; i++)
            {
            if (!styles[i].isEqual(styles[i+1]))
                {
                var d = new ActionDescriptor(); 
                d.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("from"), from); 
                d.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("to"), i+1); 
                d.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), styles[i]); 

                new_list.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), d);

                from = i+1;
                }
            }

        // put new styles to textKey descriptor

        textKey.putList(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), new_list); 

        // set modified textKey back to textLayer

        var d = new ActionDescriptor(); 
        var r = new ActionReference(); 
        r.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum")); 
        d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r); 
        d.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("to"), stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), textKey); 

        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("set"), d, DialogModes.NO); 
        } 

    catch (e) { alert(e); }  
    } 

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi @r-bin, I requested you to kindly review my next queries, and help me for this if possible.

Find postscript font upto textstylerange and replace a new postscript name based on Input data.

Thanks

[Lumigraphics]

I have a sample script on my Dropbox that does this. You WILL need to edit the script with your parameters.
Adobe Scripts

Look for Photoshop Scripts->Update text layers

You can search for specific text, replace it, and set formatting.

[Balaji Murugesan]

Hi @Lumigraphics, Thanks for your set of scripts. i will look into this and let you as soon as possible.