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SmIqbal
SmIqbal

Reputation: 99

AE Script to change font style

Could someone help me by advising why the last line in below code is not working? The objective is to set the font style to bold of a text layer.

var myComp = app.project.activeItem;
var myTextLayer = myComp.layer(1);
var mySourceText = myTextLayer.property("ADBE Text Properties").property("ADBE Text Document");
var myTextDoc = mySourceText.value;
myTextDoc.ScriptUIFont.style.setValue(["Bold"]);

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3035

Answers (2)

Eugene Ihnatsyeu
Eugene Ihnatsyeu

Reputation: 1585

You need to set the textDocument.font property to the style name (without spaces), put a dash and write a font style with a captial letter. For example "NunitoSans-Bold" or "Montserrat-SemiBold"

Upvotes: 1

Ziki
Ziki

Reputation: 1440

I'm not aware of any way to change the style directly without changing the font.

You need to change the font attribute in myTextDoc to the desire font.

myTextDoc.font = 'Arial-BoldMT';
mySourceText.setValue(myTextDoc);

If the only change you want is to make it bold, you can use fauxBold attribute (It's a bit different, but maybe it'll make you satisfy).

myTextDoc.fauxBold = true;
mySourceText.setValue(myTextDoc);

Upvotes: 1

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