TextLayer object¶
app.project.item(index).layer(index)
Description
The TextLayer object represents a text layer within a composition. Create it using the LayerCollection object’s addText method. It can be accessed in an item’s layer collection either by index number or by a name string.
AE Properties
TextLayer defines no additional attributes, but has the following AE properties and property groups, in addition to those inherited from AVLayer:
Text
SourceText
PathOptions
Path
ReversePath
PerpendicularToPath
ForceAlignment
FirstMargin
LastMargin
MoreOptions
AnchorPointGrouping
GroupingAlignment
Fill&Stroke
InterCharacterBlending
Animators
Unused Properties and Attributes
The TimeRemapandMotionTrackers
properties, inherited from AVLayer, are not applicable to text layers, and their related AVLayer attributes are not used:
canSetTimeRemapEnabled
timeRemapEnabled
trackMatteType
isTrackMatte
hasTrackMatte