Get paragraph style details of text layer

[poortip87]

Hi All,

I am developing an extension for Photoshop CS6 onwards. I want to get the paragraph style and its properties of my text layer. If I apply a new style and try to get the properties, I always get the Basic Paragraph properties and not the properties of the applied style. I am unable to understand this behaviour. Here is the code I am using,

var curLayer = app.activeDocument.activeLayer;

var activeTextItem = curLayer.textItem;

if(activeTextItem.contents != "")

{

    alert(activeTextItem.font);

}

I always get the font details of the Basic Paragraph style.

Am I missing something?

[Michael_L_Hale]

I haven't done much with text styles but I think you need to use Action Manager. As I understand the text style overrides the default text settings and you need Action Manger to get the paragraph style range and settings.

[AI_learner]

Hi All,

I am also getting the trouble in the same situation like this.

Actually I am using Action Manager code to get the text font family, font size etc. applied through paragraph style.

Let me explain my problem,

I have a .psd file with some text applied on it and different paragraph styles are applied on those text. I am trying to get the information of the selected text. I am doing it via Action Manager code. Following is the code:

var paraList = descText.getList(  stringIDToTypeID( "paragraphStyleRange" ) );

var paraDesc = paraList.getObjectValue( 0 );

var paraStyle = paraDesc.getObjectValue( stringIDToTypeID("paragraphStyle") );

var kdefaultStyleStr = stringIDToTypeID("defaultStyle");

if ( paraStyle.hasKey( kdefaultStyleStr ) )

{

     if (defStyle.hasKey( stringIDToTypeID("fontPostScriptName") ) )

          layerFontName = defStyle.getString( stringIDToTypeID("fontPostScriptName") );

     if (defStyle.hasKey( stringIDToTypeID("size") ) )

          textSize = defStyle.getDouble( stringIDToTypeID("size") );

     if (defStyle.hasKey( stringIDToTypeID("tracking") ) )

          tracking = defStyle.getInteger( stringIDToTypeID("tracking") );

}

It is working for some text. But for some text, paraStyle.hasKey( kdefaultStyleStr ) returns 'false' and I dont know why it is.

Is there something I am missing here?

Thanks