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After Effects feature summary (March 2024 release)

Last updated on 26 March 2024

The March 2024 release (version 24.3) includes per-character styling for Text layers, important fixes, and more.

Per-character styling

Access and manipulate individual characters within a text layer using scripting with new additions to the TextDocument DOM.

  • The properties of individual characters can now be changed independently of the others with the new CharacterRange and ParagraphRange objects. 
  • The new paragraphCount attribute will return the number of paragraphs in the TextDocument. 
  • The new paragraphCharacterIndexesAt method will return the paragraph bounds from a character index—useful if you have a character index and wonder what the character index bounds of the paragraph it's part of. 
  • It's now possible to faithfully round trip a mixed-property Text layer via the TextDocument without losing individual properties. 
  • boxTextPos will now accept negative values.
The PerCharacter_StyleEdit dailog box is open and it has Font and Color settings to specifiy. It also has the text in the Composition panel that has this script applied.
An example shows the Font and Color settings applied to a Text layer using the Per-character style script.

Learn more about Per-character scripting and explore what’s new and changed for scripting in After Effects.

Fixed issues

Check out the latest fixes and performance improvements in the latest version of After Effects.

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