Hello, can anyone tell me how I can get my script to detect overlapping objects?

I have a fairly complex script that exports different things from an Illustrator document. I am using document.exportForScreens to easily export all artboards at once. However, I can't find a way to turn off Create sub-folders in the script. Is that possible?

I'm looking for a script that would allow me to rename illustrator artboard to specific name. Those would always be the same 3 names  in the same order (CV, UC and GE).

When I create my Illustrator doc I always have 3 artboards, those tree artboard need to be rename to:

artboard 1 to CV

artboard 2 to UC

artboard 3 to GE

I recently discovered the power of illustrator script. I really need the learn how to make my own..

Thanks in advance

Yolaine

Hi,

When resizing a text frame using Applescript, modifying the width property, not only the text frame size changes, but the text is stretched.

Does anyone know how I can prevent this from happening ?

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"  set myDoc to the current document  tell myDoc  set myFrame to page item "test"  set the width of myFrame to 300  set book to false  end tell
endtell

Any Suggestions ?

Thanks

Hi,

how to check the selected item is rectangle in illustrator using script.

Thank You.

I'm trying to grab a number from the user, default of 1, with buttons next to it that increase or decrease that number

I don't believe I'm even close yet, the number displayed in the UI doesn't change here, also, I'm not sure it's even a number, but text instead.  I'm still very new at this, everything is probably pretty crude.

w = new Window('dialog', "Gadget");

  w.grp1 = w.add('group');

  w.grp1.orientation = "row";

  w.grp1.alignment = "right";

    w.grp1.add("statictext", undefined, "Left Offset:");

    var leftoffset = w.grp1.add("edittext", undefined, 1);

      leftoffset.characters = 3;

      leftoffset.active = true;

    var grp1up = w.grp1.add("button", undefined, "+");

      grp1up.onClick = leftoffset = leftoffset + 1;

    var grp1down = w.grp1.add("button", undefined, "-");

      grp1up.onClick = leftoffset = leftoffset - 1;

Another later goal is to have a checkbox in the UI near the beginning, that allows the button presses to increase the numbers by 0.25's instead of 1's

app.executeMenuCommand(StringFromListBelow); 

actualsize

Add Anchor Points2

AddArrowHeads2

Adjust Colors Dialog

Adjust3

Adobe Action Palette

Adobe Actions Batch

Adobe AI Device center

Adobe AI Save For Web

Adobe Apply Last Effect

Adobe Art Style Plugin Other libraries menu item

Adobe Bridge Browse

Adobe BrushManager Menu Item

Adobe Color Palette

Adobe Color Palette Secondary

Adobe Default Workspace

Adobe Flattening Preview

Adobe Gradient Palette

Adobe Harmony Palette

Adobe Illustrator Find Font Menu Item

Adobe Illustrator Smart Punctuation Menu Item

Adobe Last Effect

Adobe LinkPalette Menu Item

Adobe Manage Workspace

Adobe Minimal Workspace

Adobe New Fill Shortcut

Adobe New Stroke Shortcut

Adobe New Style Shortcut

Adobe New Swatch Shortcut Menu

Adobe New Symbol Shortcut

Adobe Optical Alignment Item

Adobe Paragraph Styles Palette

Adobe Save a Version

Adobe Save Workspace

Adobe Stroke Palette

Adobe Style Palette

Adobe SVG Interactivity Palette

Adobe Swatches Menu Item

Adobe Symbol Palette

Adobe Symbol Palette Plugin Other libraries menu item

Adobe Transparency Palette Menu Item

Adobe Update Link Shortcut

Adobe Variables Palette Menu Item

AdobeAlignObjects2

AdobeBrushMgr Other libraries menu item

AdobeBuiltInToolbox1

AdobeCheatSheetMenu

AdobeLayerPalette1

AdobeLayerPalette2

AdobeLayerPalette3

AdobeNavigator1

AdobeNavigator2

AdobePathfinderPalette1

AdobeSwatch_ Other libraries menu item

AdobeTransformObjects1

AI Bounding Box Toggle

AI Magic Wand

AI Object Mosaic Plug-in3

AI Place

AI Reset Bounding Box

ai_browse_for_script

AISlice Clip to Artboard

AISlice Combine

AISlice Create from Guides

AISlice Create from Selection

AISlice Delete All Slices

AISlice Divide

AISlice Duplicate

AISlice Feedback Menu

AISlice Lock Menu

AISlice Make Slice

AISlice Release Slice

AISlice Slice Options

alternate glyph palette plugin

alternate glyph palette plugin 2

Appearance of Black 1

Apply Last Filter

areatextoptions

arrangeicon

artboard

assignprofile

average

avgAndJoin

bringAllToFront

Brush Strokes menu item

cascade

centerAlign

Character Styles

Check Spelling

cleanup menu item

clear

clearguide

clearTrack

clearTypeScale

Clipping Masks menu item

close

closeAll

color

Colors3

Colors4

Colors5

Colors6

Colors7

Colors8

Colors9

compoundPath

control palette plugin

convertlegacyText

convertlegacyText1

convertlegacyText2

convertlegacyText3

convertlegacyText4

copy

Create Envelope Grid

cut

Define Pattern Menu Item

deselectall

discretHyphen

Distort2

doc-color-cmyk

doc-color-rgb

DocInfo1

document

DropShadow2

Dynamic Text

edge

Edit Custom Dictionary...

Edit Envelope Contents

editGraphData

editMask

EditOriginal Menu Item

editview

enterFocus

Envelope Options

exitFocus

Expand as Viewed

Expand Envelope

Expand Planet X

Expand Tracing

Expand3

expandStyle

export

faceSizeDown

faceSizeUp

File Handling & Clipboard 1

File Info

Find and Replace

Find Blending Mode menu item

Find Fill & Stroke menu item

Find Fill Color menu item

Find Link Block Series menu item

Find Next

Find Opacity menu item

Find Reselect menu item

Find Stroke Color menu item

Find Stroke Weight menu item

Find Style menu item

Find Symbol Instance menu item

fitall

fitHeadline

fitin

Flash Text

FlattenTransparency1

Gradient Feedback

graphDesigns

group

guidegridPref

helpcontent

hide

hide2

hideApp

hideOthers

highlightFont

highlightFont2

hyphenPref

ink

Input Text

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-attributes

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-character

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-info

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-opentype

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-paragraph

internal palettes posing as plug-in menus-tab

Inverse menu item

join

justify

justifyAll

justifyCenter

justifyRight

KBSC Menu Item

keyboardPref

Knife Tool2

Last Filter

leftAlign

Live 3DExtrude

Live 3DRevolve

Live 3DRotate

Live AddArrowHeads2

Live Color Dialog

Live Deform Arc

Live Deform Arc Lower

Live Deform Arc Upper

Live Deform Arch

Live Deform Bulge

Live Deform Fish

Live Deform Fisheye

Live Deform Flag

Live Deform Inflate

Live Deform Rise

Live Deform Shell Lower

Live Deform Shell Upper

Live Deform Squeeze

Live Deform Twist

Live Deform Wave

Live DropShadow2

Live Ellipse

Live Feather

Live Free Distort

Live Inner Glow

Live Offset Path

Live Outer Glow

Live Outline Object

Live Outline Stroke

Live Pathfinder Add

Live Pathfinder Crop

Live Pathfinder Divide

Live Pathfinder Exclude

Live Pathfinder Hard Mix

Live Pathfinder Intersect

Live Pathfinder Merge

Live Pathfinder Minus Back

Live Pathfinder Outline

Live Pathfinder Soft Mix

Live Pathfinder Subtract

Live Pathfinder Trap

Live Pathfinder Trim

Live Pucker & Bloat

Live Rasterize

Live Rasterize Effect Setting

Live Rectangle

Live Roughen

Live Round3

Live Rounded Rectangle

Live Scribble and Tweak

Live Scribble Fill

Live Transform

Live Twist

Live Zig Zag

lock

lock2

lockguide

LowerCase Change Case Item

Make and Convert to Live Paint

Make and Expand

Make Envelope

make mesh

Make Planet X

Make Text Wrap

Make Tracing

Make Warp

makeguide

makeMask

Marge Planet X

minimizeWindow

navigateToNextDocument

navigateToNextDocumentGroup

navigateToPreviousDocument

navigateToPreviousDocumentGroup

new

newFromTemplate

newview

newwindow

noCompoundPath

OffsetPath2

OffsetPath3

open

outline

Overprint2

pagetiling

Paint Tracing

paste

pasteBack

pasteFront

pasteInAllArtboard

pasteInPlace

PathBlend Expand

PathBlend Make

PathBlend Options

PathBlendRelease

PathBlend Replace Spine

PathBlend Reverse Spine

PathBlend Reverse Stack

PDF Presets

Planet X Options

pluginPref

preference

preview

Print

Print Presets

proofColors

proof-custom

proof-document

proof-mac-rgb

proof-monitor-rgb

proof-win-rgb

Punk2

quit

raster

Rasterize 8 menu item

redo

Registration...

Release Envelope

Release Planet X

Release Text Wrap

Release Tracing

releaseCropMarks

releaseguide

releaseMask

releaseThreadedTextSelection

Remove Anchor Points menu

removeThreading

repeatPathfinder

Replace Colors Dialog

revert

rightAlign

Roughen3

Round3

Rows and Columns....

ruler

rulerCoordinateSystem

Saturate3

save

Save for Office

saveacopy

saveas

saveasTemplate

Scribble3

selectall

selectallinartboard

Selection Hat 1

Selection Hat 10

Selection Hat 11

Selection Hat 2

Selection Hat 3

Selection Hat 4

Selection Hat 5

Selection Hat 6

Selection Hat 7

Selection Hat 8

Selection Hat 9

selectionPref

sendBackward

sendForward

sendToBack

sendToFront

Sentence case Change Case Item

setBarDesign

setCropMarks

setGraphStyle

setIconDesign

Show Gaps Planet X

Show Perspective Grid

Show Preprocessed Image

showAll

showAllWindows

ShowArtwork

showgrid

showguide

showHiddenChar

ShowNoArtwork

ShowNoImage

ShowOriginalImage

ShowPaths

ShowPathsAndTransparentArtwork

showtemplate

ShowTransparentImage

simplify menu item

sizeStepDown

sizeStepUp

snapgrid

Snapomatic on-off menu item

snappoint

snapPref

spacing

Stray Points menu item

Style Palette

SWFPresets

switchSelTool

switchUnits

systemInfo

Text Objects menu item

Text Wrap Options...

textpathtype3d

textpathtypeGravity

textpathtypeOptions

textpathtypeRainbow

textpathtypeSkew

textpathtypestairs

textthreads

threadTextCreate

tile

Title Case Change Case Item

toggleAutoHyphen

toggleLineComposer

Tracing Options

TracingPresets

tracking

Transform3

transformagain

transformmove

transformreflect

transformrotate

transformscale

transformshear

Transparency Presets

TransparencyGrid Menu Item

TrimMark2

Twirl Tool2

type-horizontal

type-vertical

undo

ungroup

unitundoPref

unlockAll

UpperCase Change Case Item

userInterfacePref

view1

view10

view2

view3

view4

view5

view6

view7

view8

view9

Welcome screen menu item

ZigZag2

zoomin

zoomin2

zoomout

How to make the value field be focused when dialog opened? I.e. the idea is to imitate user click in the input field to make it active.

diaogGroup.elements = [

        {

            "type":"edittext",

            "value":"",

            "characters":1,

            "visible":true

        },

      ];

Hi All

I am trying to apply a drop shadow live effect.

The post is very helpful PageItem.applyEffect(LiveEffectXML)

The fxg string I get is

<ai:LiveEffect index="0" major="1" minor="0" name="Adobe Drop Shadow">  <ai:Dict data="B pair 1 R opac 1 R dark 100 R horz 7 R blur 0 I csrc 0 I blnd 0 R vert 7 B usePSLBlur 1 I Adobe Effect Expand Before Version 16 ">    <ai:Entry name="sclr" valueType="F">      <ai:Fill color="1 0.75 0.68 0.67 0.902"/>    </ai:Entry>  </ai:Dict></ai:LiveEffect>

I am stuck how to convert this into the LiveEffectXML string

The effects demonstrated in the above post and the links found on it don't have the extra <ai:Entry> tag, I don't know what to do with it.

I'm also confused by the last bit

I Adobe Effect Expand Before Version 16 "

I would think all the spaces between the words is going to cause trouble also I don't know why there's a space after the integer 16 ?

Has anyone figured this out?

Regards

Trevor

I am new with scripting in Illustrator but see a need to script some repetitive tasks.

I start with a document that has most art on Layer 15 colored with various spot colors

I need to select all strokes of a specific color, change it to another color and move it to a different sub layer.

Layer 15

     all art

Template layer

     Cut

     Bleed

     Score

Can someone please get me started with the commands? I picked up on others who were moving items to different layers, but not changing colors also.

Hello, I found this limitations in ExtendScript Toolkit help:

4.1 “Nested” modal dialogs

The following sequence of operations using dialog (modal) windows is illegal, and will result in an

application crash (assuming the script created two separate dialog windows - win1 and win2):

var result1 = win1.show();

win1.hide();

/* Create and show a nested dialog */

var result2 = win2.show();

win2.close();

win1.show();

win1.close();

As noted in the JavaScript Tools Guide document, calling hide() for a dialog window does not only

change the window's visibility; it is equivalent to calling close(0), which removes the window from its

modal state. If the script calls show() a second time for this window to make it visible again, the

application is likely to crash when the window is finally closed. If your script requires the use of "nested"

modal dialogs, use a sequence like this instead:

var result1 = win1.show();

/* Create and show a nested dialog */

var result2 = win2.show();

win2.close();

win1.close();

And it still doesn't work for me. It crashes or makes an error saying illegal to show and hide dialog.

var win = new Window ("dialog", "Window 1", [150, 150, 1040, 880]);

     var win2 = new Window("dialog", "Window 2", [150, 150, 600, 250]);  

          win2_pnl = win2.add("panel", [10, 10, 440, 100], "Move slider around"); 

     resetButton2 = win2_pnl.add("button", [25, 10, 125, 40], "Minus x");      

var tpanel = win.add ("tabbedpanel", [5, 5, 650, 680]);

var general = tpanel.add ("tab", [5, 5, 400, 300], "1, 2");  ////  TAB

var win_pnl = general.add ("panel", [0, 0, 500, 500], "1"); ////  PANEL

    var ys1 = 5;    var ys2 = 30;    var xxx = 20;    var yyy = 10;    var xx2 = 230;    var yy2 = 45;

    var dfg = 8;

    label_CC = win_pnl.add("edittext", [xxx+220, 19+dfg, 280, 38+dfg],             "100"); 

        var slideCC = win_pnl.add("slider", [xxx, 25, xx2, 50], 0, -200, 200);      slideCC.value = 100;

var images = tpanel.add ("tab", undefined, "3, 4");  ////  TAB

images.alignChildren = "fill";

var imwin_pnl = images.add ("panel", undefined, "Options");  ////  PANEL

imwin_pnl.dtd_decl = imwin_pnl.add ("checkbox", undefined, "123");

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /////////////////////////  BUTTONS

//var buttons = win.add ("group");

button1 = win.add ("button", [50, 200, 100, 230], "Export", {name: "ok"});

button2 = win.add ("button", [250, 200, 300, 230], "Cancel");

////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// //////////////////////////////////

     button1.onClick = function()  //  WIN 1

     {  

var result1 = win.show();

/* Create and show a nested dialog */

var result2 = win2.show();

win2.close();

win.close();

     } 

    resetButton2.onClick = function()  //  WIN 2

     {  

var result1 = win2.show();

/* Create and show a nested dialog */

var result2 = win.show();

win.close();

win2.close();

     } 

win.show ();

Hi all,

i'm working on a script and final step is missing, i just want to know Transform each function code on JavaScript, or at least i want to create a code can do a shortcut like (Alt+Ctrl+Shift+D)

Object > Transform > Transform Each with Reflect X and Center point position

is it possible??

Thanks a lot

Hi,

I have a large batch of files (100+) that all have the same layer structure. The top layer is called 'Guides', the next layer is called 'Object", the next layer is called 'Shadow' and it goes on down through another 5 layers. I'd like to create a script that will select delete certain layers (eg. 'Guides') before I save out a new file as part of an action. I'm coming from a background in Photoshop, where this could all be done in actions, but appears you can't select layers in Illustrator (please correct me if I'm wrong!).

Any help in creating a script would be most appreciated!

Dave

Hello:

How to divide all textFrames in one-character-per-textFrame?

Example: the textFrame "Letters" will be divided in 7 textFrames: "L", "e", "t", "t", "e", "r", "s".

Help, please.

I'm looking for a script that would allow me to rename illustrator artboard to specific name. Those would always be the same 3 names  in the same order (CV, UC and GE).

When I create my Illustrator doc I always have 3 artboards, those tree artboard need to be rename to:

artboard 1 to CV

artboard 2 to UC

artboard 3 to GE

I recently discovered the power of illustrator script. I really need the learn how to make my own..

Thanks in advance

Yolaine

Hi,

When resizing a text frame using Applescript, modifying the width property, not only the text frame size changes, but the text is stretched.

Does anyone know how I can prevent this from happening ?

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"  set myDoc to the current document  tell myDoc  set myFrame to page item "test"  set the width of myFrame to 300  set book to false  end tell
endtell

Any Suggestions ?

Thanks

(Transferring this question from the general Illustrator forum to here)

I have 648 pngs that I need to make into pattern swatches. Is there a script that could do this in batch mode? Ideally, I'd drag them into an Illustrator document, embed them, then run a script that creates swatches from them, named according to their file names (perhaps without the .png extension). I'm using CC2015.3 on Win10.

Thanks for any help. Wondering if this is how people get into scripting - they see things Illustrator can't do and do it themselves :-)

Tom

I can't find a way to set the unit preferences for Illustrator CS6/CC using JavaScript.

I found that this works (setting units for stroke):

var units = 2; // 0-inches, 1-milllimeters, 2-points

app.preferences.setIntegerPreference("strokeUnits", units)

But I want to set the ruler units ("General" in the interface), and this does not work:

app.preferences.setIntegerPreference("rulerUnits", units)

Any help?

Peter

I'm looking for a script that would allow me to rename illustrator artboard to specific name. Those would always be the same 3 names  in the same order (CV, UC and GE).

When I create my Illustrator doc I always have 3 artboards, those tree artboard need to be rename to:

artboard 1 to CV

artboard 2 to UC

artboard 3 to GE

I recently discovered the power of illustrator script. I really need the learn how to make my own..

Thanks in advance

Yolaine