Photoshop Scripting - textItem Properties

[mikebaugh]

I'm looking for a way to get the text properties of each character of a Photoshop text layer.

The Photoshop scripting guide doesn't show how to gain access to substring properties of a text layer.

For example:

Given a Photoshop document with a text layer named "TEXT" that contains the text "Hello World!" where "Hello" is set with the font of Helvetica Bold and "World!" is set with the font of Futura.

When you run the following script it returns "Helvetica-Bold"

alert(app.activeDocument.layers.getByName("TEXT").textItem.font);

How do you gain access to the text properties of "World!"

It seems that all properties returned of a textItem are based on the first character of the textItem contents.

[jazz-y · Accepted solution]

You need to work with text styles in ActionManager. For example, a similar task was discussed here: Superscript text font change using script

[r-bin · Accepted solution]

Try this method

var r = new ActionReference();
var d = new ActionDescriptor();

r.putProperty(stringIDToTypeID("property"), stringIDToTypeID("json"));
r.putEnumerated(stringIDToTypeID("document"), stringIDToTypeID("ordinal"), stringIDToTypeID("targetEnum"));
d.putReference(stringIDToTypeID("null"), r);

d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("includeAncestors"), false);
d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("getTextStyles"), true)

d.putBoolean(stringIDToTypeID("selectedLayers"), true);

eval("var json="+executeAction(stringIDToTypeID("get"), d, DialogModes.NO).getString(stringIDToTypeID("json")));

alert(json.toSource())

[mikebaugh]

jazz-y and r-bin,

This is perfect! Thank you I really appreciate it!