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Gustavo Del Vechio
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April 11, 2018
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Read and change specific words in a text layer

  • April 11, 2018
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Hi

I have a text layer in Adobe Photoshop (it's a text-frame). Suppose I deffined it as a variable called "myText"... by using:

var myText = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName("dados");

In Adobe Illustrator, I can simply use the property: "words" in order to acess an array of all words in the text frame. I could declare anything like:

var countWords = myText.words;

And...after... I can acess the "countWords[1]", "countWords[2]".... to acess all individual words and personalize them.

Looking at Photoshop documentation I did not find similar property or object or instance... In "textItem" object there's no "paragraph" or "words" option that I can try.

Is there any way in Photoshop I can acess individual words in a text frame layer, so I could, for example, chance the color of this word...or increase the size of just this word?

Thank you very much for the help.

Gustavo.

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Correct answer r-bin

You can change the text parameters for a specific

position and length using this function. The words and their positions in the text will have to be searched for.

var c1 = new SolidColor();
with (c1.rgb) { red   = 200; green = 100; blue = 150; } 
var c2 = new SolidColor();
with (c2.rgb) { red   = 20; green = 100; blue = 200; } 
// activeLayer in demo example must be textlayer
activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.size = 12;
activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.contents = "0123456789012345678901234567890";
// examples
set_text_style(0, 4, 50)
set_text_style(4, 4, 70, c1)
set_text_style(10, 5, 30, c2)
function set_text_style(from, len, size, color)
    {
    try {
        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        var r = new ActionReference();
        r.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum"));
        d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
        var d1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var list1 = new ActionList();
        var d2 = new ActionDescriptor();
        d2.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("from"), from);
        d2.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("to"), from+len);
        var d3 = new ActionDescriptor();
        d3.putUnitDouble(stringIDToTypeID("size"), stringIDToTypeID("pointsUnit"), size);
        if (color != undefined)
            {
            var d4 = new ActionDescriptor();
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("red"),   color.rgb.red);
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("green"), color.rgb.green);
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("blue"),  color.rgb.blue);
            d3.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("color"), stringIDToTypeID("RGBColor"), d4);
            }
        d2.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), d3);
        list1.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), d2);
        d1.putList(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), list1);
        d.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("to"), stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), d1);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("set"), d, DialogModes.NO);
        }
    catch (e) { throw(e); } 
    }

1 reply

pixxxelschubser
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pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
Community Expert
April 11, 2018

Hi Gustavo,

some snippets and or possible ways could be find here: Changing color of text found with regex

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r-binCorrect answer
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April 11, 2018

You can change the text parameters for a specific

position and length using this function. The words and their positions in the text will have to be searched for.

var c1 = new SolidColor();
with (c1.rgb) { red   = 200; green = 100; blue = 150; } 
var c2 = new SolidColor();
with (c2.rgb) { red   = 20; green = 100; blue = 200; } 
// activeLayer in demo example must be textlayer
activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.size = 12;
activeDocument.activeLayer.textItem.contents = "0123456789012345678901234567890";
// examples
set_text_style(0, 4, 50)
set_text_style(4, 4, 70, c1)
set_text_style(10, 5, 30, c2)
function set_text_style(from, len, size, color)
    {
    try {
        var d = new ActionDescriptor();
        var r = new ActionReference();
        r.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum"));
        d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);
        var d1 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var list1 = new ActionList();
        var d2 = new ActionDescriptor();
        d2.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("from"), from);
        d2.putInteger(stringIDToTypeID("to"), from+len);
        var d3 = new ActionDescriptor();
        d3.putUnitDouble(stringIDToTypeID("size"), stringIDToTypeID("pointsUnit"), size);
        if (color != undefined)
            {
            var d4 = new ActionDescriptor();
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("red"),   color.rgb.red);
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("green"), color.rgb.green);
            d4.putDouble(stringIDToTypeID("blue"),  color.rgb.blue);
            d3.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("color"), stringIDToTypeID("RGBColor"), d4);
            }
        d2.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), stringIDToTypeID("textStyle"), d3);
        list1.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), d2);
        d1.putList(stringIDToTypeID("textStyleRange"), list1);
        d.putObject(stringIDToTypeID("to"), stringIDToTypeID("textLayer"), d1);
        executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("set"), d, DialogModes.NO);
        }
    catch (e) { throw(e); } 
    }
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