Font updates - what's the best way?

[cattlecall]

Our company outsourced the redesign of one of our websites to a design firm that used Photoshop to create the final site files. Now that the site's live, we're considering making numerous style changes to the text and we need an efficient way to update all the files ourselves.

For example, we've one file with 20 different text layers, all Verdana & colored red, and we'd like to change them to Arial & colored blue. And we need to do this on 20 different ps files.

I've reviewed Applescript and probably could come up with a script to make the revisions we need, but I'm wondering if anyone else has experienced this problem and can share their solution. Is there a plug-in that can provide font management capabilities, perhaps similar to InDesign?

[bripriuk]

Hi
I found this in Photoshop help:

To change the font on multiple layers at the same time.

# In the Layers palette, select one of the text layers you want to change.

# Click the link column of any additional text layers you want to change. (The link column is just left of the layer.) Photoshop links these layers with the layer you selected in step 1 and displays the link icon Link icon in the column next to the layer.

# In the Character palette, hold down the Shift key while selecting from any of its pop-up menus.

# To change a numeric setting, type the value, and press Shift + Enter (Windows) or Shift + Return (Mac OS).

Brian

[cattlecall]

Brian,

Thanks for the response!

We've considered that approach (as well as shift-clicking on each text object on screen) but we're looking for a time-saving alternative due to the complexity of the layer-set structure and quantity of unique text blocks/layers used in each page design (~80 layers in the homepage design alone).

Cheers,
tom

[bripriuk]

Tom
Oh Dear. It sounds like one of those jobs where it will take longer to find a quick way than to do it the long way. Lock someone in a darkened room with a jug of coffee and push a ham sandwich under the door every few hours

Brian

[cattlecall]

Ha! It may just come down to that.

Still, the company has numerous web properties and if Photoshop ends up being the software used for site design we'll have to find a better solution for font managment with PS.

Thanks for your input!
tom