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• • November 15, 2019 at 5:30 am #1197033
    ll1324

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    What is the way to access in a script the weight, width, and slant values for a variable opentype font such as Acumin Variable Concept?

    I was flipping through the possibilities looking at the debugger panel in Visual Studio Code; the fontFamily (etc.) appears, but can’t find an entry for (say) slant value. Weight appears for other thing (such as kenten or paragraph rules) but that’s unrelated.

    This is if one is setting these values for (say) a paragraph, word, or a character.

    Anyone has tried this yet?

  • November 15, 2019 at 10:02 am #14323696
    ll1324

    Member

    Bother! After some fiddling around, found it out. Here’s an example of a quick script to change the weight of each character in a selection so that it goes from the lightest weight to the heaviest (the result is the text gets darker and darker the further along you go). Note: you have to already have applied the Acumin Variable Concept font to the selected text, and you also have to select the text itself (it will only do the selected text):

    //

    if (app.documents.length == 0)
    {
    alert (“No open documents!”);
    exit ();
    }
    selectedText =app.selection[0].characters;
    t=selectedText[0];
    myDesignAxesName=t.appliedFont.designAxesName;
    myDesignAxesRange=t.appliedFont.designAxesRange;
    myDesignAxesValues=t.appliedFont.designAxesValues;
    range=myDesignAxesRange[0];
    w0=range[0];
    w1=range[1];
    stepping=(w1-w0)/selectedText.length;
    for (s=0; s<selectedText.length; s++)
    {
    myDesignAxesValues[0]=(w0+stepping*s);
    selectedText[s].designAxes=myDesignAxesValues;
    }
    alert(“Done”);

    // End.

  • November 15, 2019 at 7:31 pm #14323694
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Thanks for sharing that!

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