Text

This category holds generic text-related entries for text layers.

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Text.sourceText

Description

Returns the text content of a text layer.

As of After Effects 17.0, this property returns the Source Text object to access text style properties. If no style properties are specified, this returns the text content as expected.

Type

String of text content, or Source Text (AE 17.0+)

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Text.Font…

Description

Launches a dialog window for the user to specify a font name and weight.

Upon selection, the internal font name is injected into the expression editor as a string.

Type

String