Is there a plugin that will Decompose Text? (Extract each character from word into Individual Layers)

[brittuk]

 

In Adode After Effects there is a Decompose Text effect which takes a string of letters (or words) and breaks them down into an individual layer for each character (or word), maintaining their position  DecomposeText - aescripts.com

 

Do we have anything similar available?

[MJW]

I'm almost certain there isn't, and with the current way PDN works, I doubt there will ever be. Adobe After Effects has text layers that maintain the text as text. PDN doesn't. As soon as text is committed (for instance, by clicking Finish), it's converted to pixels, and no longer has any separate identity as text.

 

Additionally, I don't believe plugins can create layers. (It's possible that functionality was added recently, but I don't think so.) If a plugin could create layers, it would be possible to write a plugin that could separate each object (connected non-transparent pixels surrounded by transparency) into a separate layer. That would sort of do what you want for text on a separate layer, but it would fail to work properly for letters that touched, and for the dots on i's and j's.

 

UPDATE: I realize about every other word in my comment is separate.  I just couldn't come up with any synonyms.

[brittuk]

Thanks for answer your MJW! It made perfect sense.

 

I had a good look around & expected as much... but now I know, I won't waste any more time looking.

 

Cheers!

 

[MJW]

Thanks, brittuk. I wish I could have provided a solution that would help solve your problem.