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Damon D Bell
Damon D Bell
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April 1, 2018
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Get Text Rotation Value?

  • April 1, 2018
  • 1 reply
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Is there any way to get the transform rotation angle for a text layer?

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Correct answer r-bin

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tom+Winkelmann 

Try to rotate e.g. -130° and you get the wrong result...??

Before alert() insert this

if (d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("yy")) < 0) angle_v = angle_v-180;
if (angle_v >  180) angle_v = 360-angle_v;
if (angle_v < -180) angle_v = 360+angle_v;

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R
r-bin
Legend
April 2, 2018

Try this

var r = new ActionReference();
r.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt"));
try { var d = executeActionGet(r).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("textKey")).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID("transform")); 
    var scale_v = d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("yy"))/d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("xx"));
    var angle_v = Math.atan(d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("xy"))/d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("xx"))) * 180.0 / Math.PI;
    var angle_h = Math.atan(d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("yx"))/d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("yy"))) * 180.0 / Math.PI;
    alert 
        (
        "Scale V:\t" + (scale_v*100).toFixed(3) + "%" + "\n" +
        "Angle:\t" + angle_v.toFixed(3) + "°" + "\n" +
        "Skew H:\t" + (angle_v+angle_h).toFixed(3) + "°" + "\n" 
        );
    } 
catch (e) { alert("No tranformations"); }
    Tom Winkelmann
    Tom Winkelmann
    Inspiring
    April 2, 2018

    Try to rotate e.g. -130° and you get the wrong result...??

    R
    r-binCorrect answer
    Legend
    April 2, 2018

    https://forums.adobe.com/people/Tom+Winkelmann 

    Try to rotate e.g. -130° and you get the wrong result...??

    Before alert() insert this

    if (d.getDouble(stringIDToTypeID("yy")) < 0) angle_v = angle_v-180;
    if (angle_v >  180) angle_v = 360-angle_v;
    if (angle_v < -180) angle_v = 360+angle_v;
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