Communigate Pro AE-List@media-motion.tv Message 51010

Apply the following expression to the source text of your text layer. You can also then copy the expression and paste it to all your text layers.

txt = text.sourceText;

newTxt = "";

split = 0;

splitVal = thisComp.layer("control").effect("Slider Control")("Slider");

for (i=0; i < txt.length; i++) {

newTxt = newTxt + txt[i]

split++;

if (split == splitVal) {

split = 0 ;

newTxt = newTxt +"\r";

}

newTxt

I just tested it and it works great, my coding is not the most efficient I'm sure but it does work.

Sample project is here.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/evc1v6uq2p2k841/textWrap.aep

Phil

On Oct 1, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Louai Abu-Osba wrote:

That's a toughy. Maybe you could have a script run through each layer and add line breaks every x number of characters?

On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Chris Zwar <chris@chriszwar.com> wrote:

Hi,

I'm having a total brain freeze and could do with some advice.
I have several hundred text layers that are currently single lines of point text. I need to add line breaks to each of them so they will fit into a column, each line will probably be split over 5-6 separate lines.

So:

1) Is there a way to batch convert point text layers to paragraph text layers and give them all the same bounding box

or

2) Is there a animation preset I can use to automatically add line breaks at the nearest word after every x characters?

Cheers,

-Chris

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