Live text to Paths Meta Data

Question

This request originated on another list.
The attributes/notes can be used to add text meta-data to objects, which has been around for a long time and is very helpful.
I would love Illus/InDesign to automatically write the font details (font family and or other formatting) to the outlined paths when text is converted from live editable text to outlined vector paths.
There is nothing worse than being given an outlined file as the only data by a client and then asked to make text changes or to match the font for use in a new job.
A very helpful person named Rick Gordon gave me some help in doing this via AppleScript (see below) - however it would be good if this was hard wired into Illus and InDesign so that file originators would tag the font data to the paths when they first outline the editiable text.
SCRIPT:
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
tell document 1
set storyText to text of story of selection
set fontName to name of text font of text of story of selection
tell selection
tell storyText
set propList to {fontName, return, size, return, leading, return, tracking,
return, rotation}
end tell
set convertedText to convert to paths
set note of convertedText to propList as text
end tell
end tell
end tell
Sincerely,
Stephen Marsh
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~binaryfx/
http://prepression.blogspot.com/

Answer 1

Make sure that the file has a .html or another known file extension to make sure that the server recognizes it as an HTML file.
The server may send unknown files automatically as text plain.