Scriptographer.org - Text Pencil

Text Pencil lets you draw with text.

Note: To use Text Pencil you will need to download and install the latest version of Scriptographer (2.8.050 or above)

I used an earlier version of Text Pencil to create a poster

New features in v1.5:
• Allows the use of non monospaced fonts
• Draw with words
• Perfect spacing (turn it off for less perfect spacing)
• Select the position in the text with a popup list.

Please post any bugs you find in the comments

Text Pencil.js

There were two version of every constructor in each art object: one with and one without a document argument. With every new art object prototype added, it became more and more obvious that this was a design mistake.

Thanks for a supernice tool, I'm currently using it in one of my projects and it works just great! However, I'm experiencing the same problems that someone here pointed out, ie I'm unable to change the Size and Tracking values, the controls just don't respond. Also the font list issue - are these fixed yet and I missed it?

What I'd love to see in the future - pen pressure support (ie for interactive size). I checked the scriptograph API for it, but could not find it. If it is somewhere to be found, please let me know and I'll try to hack my way into it.

Anyway, thanks again for an amazing tool!

Wops. Looks like the last bug fix was performed on a version of Text Pencil that wasn't fixed for this yet. Please redownload the script and let me know if it works now.

It works perfect now - thanks again, Jonathan!

I keep getting errors on Illustrator CS 2 on Windows XP:

Wrapped com.scriptographer.ScriptographerException: Object is not wrapping an item ref. (F:\Programme\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS2\Zusatzmodule\Scriptographer\scripts\tools\textpencil.js#24)

org.mozilla.javascript.WrappedException: Wrapped com.scriptographer.ScriptographerException: Object is not wrapping an item ref. (F:\Programme\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS2\Zusatzmodule\Scriptographer\scripts\tools\textpencil.js#24)

at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.throwAsScriptRuntimeEx(Context.java:1705)

at org.mozilla.javascript.MemberBox.invoke(MemberBox.java:157)

at org.mozilla.javascript.JavaMembers.get(JavaMembers.java:98)

at org.mozilla.javascript.NativeJavaObject.get(NativeJavaObject.java:102)

at com.scriptographer.js.UnsealedJavaObject.get(UnsealedJavaObject.java:62)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptableObject.getProperty(ScriptableObject.java:1312)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.getObjectProp(ScriptRuntime.java:1334)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.getObjectProp(ScriptRuntime.java:1323)

at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpretLoop(Interpreter.java:2813)

at script.onMouseDown(F:\Programme\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS2\Zusatzmodule\Scriptographer\scripts\tools\textpencil.js:24)

at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2248)

at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:149)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:337)

at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:2755)

at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:147)

at com.scriptographer.js.FunctionHelper.callFunction(FunctionHelper.java:61)

at com.scriptographer.ai.Tool.onMouseDown(Tool.java:128)

at com.scriptographer.ai.Tool.onMouseDown(Tool.java:176)

Caused by: com.scriptographer.ScriptographerException: Object is not wrapping an item ref.

at com.scriptographer.adm.TextValueItem.getText(Native Method)

at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor67.invoke(Unknown Source)

at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)

at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)

at org.mozilla.javascript.MemberBox.invoke(MemberBox.java:142)

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