Font Collect

Automatically collects project fonts. Just like how After Effects collects footage!

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  • Trial
Description

Introducing Font Collect!

What's new in v1.6

  • Font Collect is now able to collect fonts in other languages besides english!
  • Collected fonts log now shows the number of fonts that are collected and Adobe fonts.
  • Debug mode to log all the processes of the script, by Shift+clicking.

A tool to help Motion Artists like us, to collect our fonts from Adobe After Effects! Just like how we collect footage!

Choose between collecting via After Effects for an immediate process or via After Effects x Indesign feature for a more precise collection, all with a single click!

Note

  • This script only collects locally installed fonts and doesn't collect any Adobe fonts.
  • Installation and usage guide included in the downloadable.

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Version History

1.6 -

Nov 22, 2021

Added new check for AE's method of font location to prevent any font location with empty strings being counted as a valid path. If found font location with empty strings, end log to include a line to suggest users to collect font with Indesign.



Added check for Indesign's method of uninstalled fonts in system.



Refined debug log by adding more checkpoints and line breaks.



Rebuilt collected fonts log to show numbers for unfound fonts, Adobe fonts and to show elapse time more accurately.

1.5 -

Nov 21, 2021

Changed folder name and paths method to include localization and to support other languages other than English.



Fixed bug on Chinese Characters displaying incorrectly in font name and folder path.



Added more details to Debug Mode.

1.4 -

Nov 20, 2021

Improved UX by reducing clicks.

After the alert prompt to save file, Font Collect now opens up the save dialog for users to save, and automatically proceeds to collect fonts, removing unnecessary clicks.



Added new functions for better flow of script execution.



Fixed bug of Indesign's text creation and collect function.



Added new Debug Mode.

Running the script via debug mode generates a Debug mode Log txt file, FontCollect_v##_Debug, on your desktop. This log file will contain the process information on Font Collect execution to be used for diagnosis if needed.

To run Debug Mode with AE Font collect, Hold Shift and click the Font Collect button

To run Debug Mode with AE x ID Font collect, Hold Shift+Alt or Shift+Option and click the Font Collect button.

1.3 -

Nov 19, 2021

Fixed collected log error description in v1.2, incorrectly stating "Trial version".

1.2 -

Nov 18, 2021

Fixed Trial Version's bug of layer numbers lower than 5 resutling in script not finishing execution.

1.1 -

Nov 17, 2021

Fixed bug of premature alert prompt to save file.



Fixed bug of newly added fonts not detected.

1.0 -

Nov 16, 2021

Initial release

01 -

Nov 5, 2021

AE_V01

AEID_V01

Compatibility

After Effects

2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, CC 2019, CC 2018, CC 2017, CC 2015.3, CC 2015, CC 2014