Change font for particular text via script in Photoshop - text

Question

Looking for a script or action for changing font face for a particular word or text in a paragraph.
I have multiple .psd files (80+) where I need to change font for a specific text say "Hello" from Arial to Tahoma and also make it bold.
Really appreciate a help!

Answer 1

You could try "jam" framework. There is class for manipulating with text. http://www.tonton-pixel.com/JSON%20Action%20Manager/jsDoc/symbols/jamText.html
You are looking for textStyleRange.
var text = "Bonjour !";
var layerText =
{
"layerText":
{
"textKey": text,
"textClickPoint": { "horizontal": 50, "vertical": 95 },
"antiAlias": "antiAliasCrisp",
"textShape":
[
{ "textType": "point", "orientation": "horizontal" }
],
"textStyleRange":
[
{
"from": 0,
"to": text.length,
"textStyle":
{
"fontPostScriptName": "Myriad-Italic",
"size": 288,
"color": { "red": 144, "green": 0, "blue": 255 }
}
}
],
"paragraphStyleRange":
[
{
"from": 0,
"to": text.length,
"paragraphStyle": { "alignment": "center" }
}
]
},
"typeUnit": "pixelsUnit"
};
jamText.setLayerText (layerText);
You need:
- create loop which checks all layers
- read one text layer
- find on which character index substring starts, where is end
- apply jamText.setLayerText
- read next layer
It goes also without framework. The structure is analogous. The code will be uglier.