multiple fonts in a textItem using jsx

[Aubreyff]

Hi,

I am saving currentLayer.textItem.contents to a text file. That part is working. But I would also like to save attributes about the textItem, specifically the fonts being used and style attributes in the textItem.

However, I am only able to find the first font using currentLayer.textItem.font . Can I somehow find a list of all fonts and attributes used in a specific textItem?

Thanks

[pixxxelschubser]

if available - search in estk after the properties of text item

[Aubreyff]

Hi pixxxel schubser,

I'm not sure what you mean by "estk"?

Would I do that like this:

for (var i = 0; i<currentLayer.textItem.estk.properties.length; i++){

txtFile.writeln('property'+ i +':  ' +currentLayer.textItem.estk.properties);

}

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

Using the standard DOM you can only access the attributes of first character of a text layer… or thats what I recall… It may be possible with action manager to dig deeper into this but I've never tried… More than likely too complex for me… I think pixxxel means for you to look in the Object Model Viewer ( omv ) of the ExtendScript Toolkit ( estk ) just key comm+/ on the mac

[Paul Riggott · Accepted solution]

As Mark has said it can get very messy getting the information you want, here is a snippet that a few people have worked on and might be of use to you...

    function getColorFromDescriptor(colorDesc, keyClass) {
      var colorObject = new SolidColor();
      switch (keyClass) {
      case "Grsc":
        colorObject.grey.grey = color.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Gry '));
        break;
      case "RGBC":
        colorObject.rgb.red = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Rd  '));
        colorObject.rgb.green = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Grn '));
        colorObject.rgb.blue = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Bl  '));
        break;
      case "CMYC":
        colorObject.cmyk.cyan = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Cyn '));
        colorObject.cmyk.magenta = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Mgnt'));
        colorObject.cmyk.yellow = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Ylw '));
        colorObject.cmyk.black = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Blck'));
        break;
      case "LbCl":
        colorObject.lab.l = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('Lmnc'));
        colorObject.lab.a = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('A   '));
        colorObject.lab.b = colorDesc.getDouble(charIDToTypeID('B   '));
        break;
      default:
        return null;
      }
      return colorObject;
    };
    // get fonts and other parameters used in type layer
    function getFonts(textLayer) {
var font_content_detection = false;
      function markReturnedContentText(text) {
        if (font_content_detection) {
          return font_content_detection_symbols[0] + text + font_content_detection_symbols[1] + "\r";
        } else {
          return text;
        }
      }
      if (textLayer.kind == LayerKind.TEXT) {
        app.activeDocument.activeLayer = textLayer;
        var ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putEnumerated(charIDToTypeID("Lyr "), charIDToTypeID("Ordn"), charIDToTypeID("Trgt"));
        var layerDesc = executeActionGet(ref);
        var textDesc = layerDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('textKey'));
        var rangeList = textDesc.getList(stringIDToTypeID('textStyleRange'));
        var fonts = [];
        for (var m = 0; m < rangeList.count; m++) {
          var styleDesc = rangeList.getObjectValue(m).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('textStyle'));
          var aFrom = rangeList.getObjectValue(m).getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('from'));
          var aTo = rangeList.getObjectValue(m).getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('to'));
          if (m > 0) {
            if (rangeList.getObjectValue(m - 1)
              .getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('from')) == aFrom && rangeList.getObjectValue(m - 1)
              .getInteger(stringIDToTypeID('to')) == aTo) continue;
          }
          var theLetters = app.activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.contents.substring(aFrom, aTo);
          var aFont = styleDesc.getString(stringIDToTypeID('fontPostScriptName'));
          var aSize = new UnitValue(styleDesc.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID('size')), "px");
          //Check if font has been transformed
            if (textDesc.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID('transform'))) {
                var mFactor = textDesc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('transform')).getUnitDoubleValue (stringIDToTypeID("yy") );
                aSize = Math.round(aSize * mFactor);
                }
          var aColor = getColorFromDescriptor(styleDesc.getObjectValue(charIDToTypeID("Clr ")), typeIDToCharID(styleDesc.getClass(charIDToTypeID("Clr "))));
       
          if (styleDesc.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID('leading'))) {
            var aLeading = new UnitValue(styleDesc.getUnitDoubleValue(stringIDToTypeID('leading')), "px");
          } else {
            var aLeading = "";
          }
        var txt = theLetters;
          var merged = false;
          if (txt.length > 0) {
            for (var x = 0; x < m; x++) {
              try {
                if (fonts.font === aFont && fonts.size === aSize && fonts.color.rgb.hexValue === aColor.rgb.hexValue && fonts.leading === aLeading) {
                  // It's a hack!!!
                  if (fonts.text !== txt) {
                    fonts.text += markReturnedContentText(txt);
                  }
                  merged = true;
                }
              } catch (e) {}
            }
            if (!merged) {
              fonts.push({
                text: markReturnedContentText(txt),
                font: aFont,
                size: aSize,
                color: aColor,
                leading: aLeading
              });
            }
          }
        };
        return fonts;
      }
  };
var f = getFonts(activeDocument.activeLayer);
for(var s in f) {
    $.writeln( f.font + " - " + f.color.rgb.hexValue + " - " + Number(f.size).toFixed(2) + " - [" + f.text + "] - " + Number(f.leading));
    }
 

[Aubreyff]

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Paul and Mark and pixxxel schubser.

I like this forum and I don't mind messy. It worked.

[Jamesthe500]

This was so helpful, thanks. One note, I think Adobe changed some of its endpoint names. In order to get this to work, I had to change lines 38 & 39 to:

if (textLayer.kind == TextType.POINTTEXT) {  
        app.activeDocument.activeLayer = textLayer.parent;  

I wasn't interested in the color functionality, so if there are bugs there, I don't know about them.