Hi
I am wondering if it would be possible to write an applescript to export sample text for every font in a collection in the Font Book application to a TextEdit document, with each sample text on a new line?
If anyone has such a script or could help me get going to write one I'd be grateful,
Thanks,
Nick
Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 8GB RAM
This should do what you want:
tell application "Font Book"
set fontCollectionNames to name of every font collection
set collectionName to item 1 of (choose from list fontCollectionNames with prompt "Choose a font collection")
set fontNames to name of every font family of font collectioncollectionName
end tell
set exampleText to ""
repeat (count of fontNames) times
set exampleText to exampleText & "This is my example text" & return
end repeat
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
set theDoc to makenewdocument
set text of theDoc to exampleText
repeat with i from 1 to (count of fontNames)
set font of paragraph i of text of theDoc to (item i of fontNames)
end repeat
end tell
This should do what you want:
tell application "Font Book"
set fontCollectionNames to name of every font collection
set collectionName to item 1 of (choose from list fontCollectionNames with prompt "Choose a font collection")
set fontNames to name of every font family of font collectioncollectionName
end tell
set exampleText to ""
repeat (count of fontNames) times
set exampleText to exampleText & "This is my example text" & return
end repeat
tell application "TextEdit"
activate
set theDoc to makenewdocument
set text of theDoc to exampleText
repeat with i from 1 to (count of fontNames)
set font of paragraph i of text of theDoc to (item i of fontNames)
end repeat
end tell
Many thanks twtwtw. That script does exactly what I want.
Enjoy the day,
Nick
Need script to export custom text in all fonts in a collection in Font Book
