Haha, really? I was *just* looking at the sdk to see if I could do it with a plugin, I could then read those values into my jsx. The operation I'm trying to do is too simple for a plugin and too complex for an expression, it's really not worth writing an entire plugin for it. Plus I'll lose the simp...

It's possible to do that via scripting?, converting it to paths would be just fine that would help me in calculating the size of the mask.

Yeah, I figured this was due to having no access to font data. The problem with hard coding is as you said, due to kerning et al. My only choice is to split the script into 2, one to generate all the text, then go into AE and create the masks en-mass then run the second half using those masks, I was...

Does anyone here know how I would go about finding the exact dimensions of a text layer? My problem: I want to place a mask around a text layer in the same way that Mask -> New Mask works. When you do it via the interface the mask automatically gets set around the bounding resize box of the text. Un...