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Daniel_Alexander_Calvo
June 19, 2024
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How to retrieve letterSpacing with Plugin API?

  • June 19, 2024
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Hello!

I’m trying to recover the letterSpacing value of a TextNode through PluginAPI. I’ve set some of my TextNodes to have a letterSpacing of 0.16px and others to 0.45px and I want to get that value in my Plugin.

However, every TextNode, those which have a modified letterSpacing and those which don’t have this value inside ‘letterSpacing’:

letterSpacing: {
unit: “PERCENT”
value: 1
}

Is there any other way of getting letterSpacing? I’ve checked and I’m retrieving the correct nodes.

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Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
June 19, 2024

I can’t reproduce. I set the spacing to 0.12px:

image

Can you share a test file?

Daniel_Alexander_CalvoAuthor
June 19, 2024

The letterSpacing I’ve set:

The answer I get:

I tried isolating the TextNode in a different page so I’m getting the same node 100%.

I’m guessing it must be due to how / where the designer set the letterSpacing. We will check it. I tried to retrieve the TextNode using the Chrome Developer Tools as you did and I’m getting the same response as always.

Thanks

Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
June 19, 2024

Is this from Dev Mode?

Can you show what the setting looks like in UI?

Daniel_Alexander_CalvoAuthor
June 19, 2024

Exactly that, I just checked and that 0.16px is basically 1% of the fontSize. In the normal UI it’s set to 1%.

Thanks, you have been very helpful. 🙂

Gleb
Gleb
Power Member
June 19, 2024

If you need 0.16 instead of 1% you can try using textNode.getCSSAsync() and it should return the value similar to dev mode https://www.figma.com/plugin-docs/api/TextNode/#getcssasync but I’m not certain, haven’t tested.

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