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This request originated on another list.

The attributes/notes can be used to add text meta-data to objects, which has been around for a long time and is very helpful.

I would love Illus/InDesign to automatically write the font details (font family and or other formatting) to the outlined paths when text is converted from live editable text to outlined vector paths.

There is nothing worse than being given an outlined file as the only data by a client and then asked to make text changes or to match the font for use in a new job.

A very helpful person named Rick Gordon gave me some help in doing this via AppleScript (see below) - however it would be good if this was hard wired into Illus and InDesign so that file originators would tag the font data to the paths when they first outline the editiable text.

SCRIPT:
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	 tell document 1
		 set storyText to text of story of selection
		 set fontName to name of text font of text of story of selection
		 tell selection
			 tell storyText
				 set propList to {fontName, return, size, return, leading, return, tracking,
return, rotation}
			 end tell
			 set convertedText to convert to paths
			 set note of convertedText to propList as text
		 end tell
	 end tell
end tell

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Sincerely,

Stephen Marsh

 <http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/>
 <http://prepression.blogspot.com/>