Changing a solid/shape size based characters in text

[d***@adobeforums.com]

is this possible thru expressions? please point me in the right direction - i am fairly good with expressions but this tis action stumps me

[A***@adobeforums.com]

Can you be a little more descriptive as to what you are trying to do?

[d***@adobeforums.com]

I also e-mailed Dan Ebberts who gave me this advice:

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Doing it based on the number of characters should be pretty easy, you just need to define how many characters corresponds to 100% scale and ratio it from there. Something like this (I'm assuming you only want to scale the width):





T = thisComp.layer("some text").text.sourceText;
charsAt100 = 20;
w = T.length/charsAt100*100;
[w,value[1]]





The charsAt100 variable defines how many characters equate to 100% width.





Doing based on the actual size of the text is trickier. You have to use sampleImage() to find the extents of the text. I think somebody posted an expression to do this at AE Enhancers.





Dan

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Thanks again Dan