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• • October 16, 2013 at 11:31 pm #65850
    Stuart Horner

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    I am writing a script for our studio that will automatically save all used fonts into a document fonts folder whenever the document is saved. This way we can be sure that whichever mac a document is opened on, the fonts will always be loaded.

    I have managed to get as far as saving the fonts but they are minus their extension names such as .otf to .ttf so the mac sees them all as text files. I am using the copy method with the “fullName” property. Could anyone please tell me where I am going wrong?

  • October 17, 2013 at 2:18 am #65851
    Theunis De Jong

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    That string (and most of the others in a Font object) is just the font name as text. These texts are read out of the font *file*, but the filename can be just about *anything*. For example, I have a Stempel Garamond: fontFamily “Stempel Garamond LT”, fontStyleName “Roman”, fullName “Stempel Garamond LT Roman” — but the file itself is called “lt50277.pfb”.

    What you are looking for is ‘location’: https://jongware.mit.edu/idcs6js/pc_Font.html#location (“The full path to the Font”).

    • October 17, 2013 at 4:36 am #65853
      Stuart Horner

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      Thanks Jongware, I have used ‘location instead of ‘fullName’ but the fonts are no longer saving. The original code is as follows:

      function copyFontsToFolder(){
      var fonts = [];
      var fontPath = []
      var fontName = []
      for (i=0; i<fontsUsed.length; i++){
      fontPath[i] = (fontsUsed[i].location) + “”;
      fontName[i] = (fontsUsed[i].fullName);
      fonts.push(fontsUsed[i]);
      alert (fonts[i].fullName);
      }
      for (i=0; i<fontsUsed.length; i++){
      File(fontPath[i]).copy (targetPath + “/Document Fonts/” + fontName[i]);
      }
      }

      This works but does not include the extension so the OS does not recognise the filetype.

    • October 17, 2013 at 6:34 am #65855
      Theunis De Jong

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      That’s exactly the behavior as described for ‘copy’: “Copies this object’s referenced file to the specified target location”. You are using “fontName” as new filename, and the file extension is no part of that. ‘location’ is way better: you get the ORIGINAL file name plus the ORIGINAL extension (your system will fail with ‘weird’ characters in the font name). On the downside, though, is that the ‘location’ also includes the entire path; and you somehow have to get rid of that.

      Try this line (untested, but hopefully you get the idea):

      fontName[i] = File(fontsUsed[i].location).name;

      — it uses a dirty trick to get just the file name, but it should work.

    • October 17, 2013 at 9:02 am #65860
      Stuart Horner

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      Thanks Jongware, that’s a huge help and I now have it working.

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