How to get the name and the path of the font used in photoshop (not textItem.font)

Question

I'm trying to get the real name of the font and the path, is there a "easy" way to do it ?
i need to get the font file (*.ttf or *.otf) and copy to the same directory as the psd file, that's why textItem.font doen't work for me.
thanks in advance

Answer 1

You could try this as it looks as if you are using Windows.
Run the VBS script to create a fontlist file on the desktop.
Then run the javaScript on the PSD document.
It should copy the fonts to the same folder as the document, it will also create a text file with a list of fonts.
It didn't find all the fonts in my test psd maybe because it wasn't in the windows/font folder?
VBS.
Set wshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Set wshSysEnv = wshShell.Environment("PROCESS")
sMyFile = "c:" & wshSysEnv("HOMEPATH") & "\Desktop\Fontlist.txt"
Dim objFileSystem, objOutputFile
Dim strOutputFile
Set objFileSystem = CreateObject("Scripting.fileSystemObject")
Set objOutputFile = objFileSystem.CreateTextFile(sMyFile, TRUE)
Dim str
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strComputer = "."
Set objReg=GetObject("winmgmts:{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
strKeyPath = "Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts"
objReg.EnumValues HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, _
strKeyPath,arrEntryNames,arrEntryZZZ
For Each entry in arrEntryNames
str = wshshell.RegRead("HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Fonts\" & entry)
       objOutputFile.WriteLine(entry & "," & str)
Next
objOutputFile.Close
javaScript.
#target photoshop;
app.bringToFront();
main();
function main(){
if(!documents.length) return;
try{
var Path = activeDocument.path;
}catch(e){
    alert("This document needs to be saved before running this script!");
    return;
var FontFile = File(Folder.desktop + "/FontList.txt");
if(!FontFile.exists){
    alert("You need to run the vbs script first to create the FontList file!");
    return;
var FontList = new Array();
    FontFile.open('r') ;
while(!FontFile.eof){  
   strInputLine =FontFile.readln();
   if (strInputLine.length > 3) inputArray  = strInputLine.split(",");
   if(inputArray.length == 2) FontList.push([[inputArray[0]],[inputArray[1]]]);
FontFile.close();
var PSDtextLayers = getNamesPlusIDs();
PSDtextLayers = UniqueSortedList(PSDtextLayers);
for(var a in PSDtextLayers){
    for(var f in FontList){
         var rex = new RegExp;
         rex = PSDtextLayers[a].toString();
        if(FontList[f][1].toString().match(rex,"i")){
            var From = new File("/c/windows/fonts/" + FontList[f][1].toString());
            var To = new File(Path + "/"+  FontList[f][1].toString());
            From.copy(To);
            break;
var rFonts = new File(Path + "/required Fonts.txt");
rFonts.open('w');
rFonts.write(PSDtextLayers.join('\n'));
rFonts.close();
function UniqueSortedList(ArrayName){
var unduped = new Object;
for (var i = 0; i < ArrayName.length; i++) {  
unduped[ArrayName[i]] = ArrayName[i];
var uniques = new Array;for (var k in unduped) {
   uniques.push(unduped[k]);}
return uniques;
function getNamesPlusIDs(){
   var ref = new ActionReference();
   ref.putProperty( charIDToTypeID( "Prpr" ), charIDToTypeID( 'NmbL' ));
   ref.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Dcmn'), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
   var count = executeActionGet(ref).getInteger(charIDToTypeID('NmbL')) +1;
   var Names=[];
try{
    activeDocument.backgroundLayer;
var i = 0; }catch(e){ var i = 1; };
   for(i;i<count;i++){
       if(i == 0) continue;
        ref = new ActionReference();
        ref.putIndex( charIDToTypeID( 'Lyr ' ), i );
        var desc = executeActionGet(ref);
        var layerName = desc.getString(charIDToTypeID( 'Nm  ' ));
        var Id = desc.getInteger(stringIDToTypeID( 'layerID' ));
        if(layerName.match(/^<\/Layer group/) ) continue;
        if (desc.hasKey(stringIDToTypeID('textKey'))){
            desc = desc.getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('textKey'));
            desc = desc.getList(stringIDToTypeID('textStyleRange')).getObjectValue(0).getObjectValue(stringIDToTypeID('textStyle'));
            var postScriptName = desc.getString( stringIDToTypeID('fontPostScriptName'));     
Names.push(postScriptName);
return Names;