My script is working nice until I try to export my document. I am trying to export my document as a DXF file.  Using the Illustrator CS6 Scripting Reference I am using the TIFF export as a reference as there are no examples for exporting as a DXF (my luck!).  This is what I have in VBscript.  With this script I get the following error on the second to last line:

"Illegal argument - argument 2 - Enumerated value expected"

As you can see I do have one: "0" so I suspect the error lies elsewhere in the code?  I'll take a JavaScript example if you are not into VBscript since the two look very similar and I think I can adapt it.

Set App = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim dest

dest = "S:\SOCAL\Section_32\Veg DXFs LC\SOCAL_CK67_pineLC"

Set DXFexport = CreateObject("Illustrator.ExportOptionsAutoCAD")

    If App.Documents.Count > 0 Then

        Set docRef = App.ActiveDocument

        Call docRef.Export (dest, 0, DXFexport)      ' 0 = aiDXF

    End If

Hi!

I have someone interested in using a script that I had made. I would like to let them use it but I want to have some control over the period of time they are able to. My plan is to encrypt the script and hopefully set it to self destruct after a year, so they need a new file from me to continue using it. This way, if we stop doing business they can no longer use the script.

Is there a simple way to do something like this?

Thanks!

Hello, very new to scripting. I know that I can assign a color to selected objects:

app.documents.add(DocumentColorSpace.RGB)

// get the active document
var doc = app.activeDocument;

// verify there is a document and at least one shape,
  // enumerate through each pathItem and assign a given color to fill
if ( app.documents.length > 0 && app.activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0) {  var newColor = new RGBColor;  newColor.red = 255;  newColor.green = 0;  newColor.blue = 0;    for (var a=0; a<app.selection.length; a++) {        try {                var currentSelection = app.selection[a];                // But how would I know whether Stroke or Fill is active here?                currentSelection.fillColor = newColor;        }        catch (e){alert(e)        }    }
}

With AutoHotKey, I can use ControlGetText on the input element of the Color Panel ("Edit 15") to directly interact and easily apply colors by submitting a new value within it, which accurately sends it as a stroke or fill depending on which is currently toggled. Is there any way to replicate this and have access to the current/active value within this panel?

I wrote a script to cut and paste groups in the first layer of a document, into new documents to isolate each group. While it works great via ESTK, and running as a script menu item, it cuts the groups from the original document, but will not paste them into newly created documents when running this menu item through an action. Is there a way to get this to run properly?

origDoc = app.activeDocument;
length = origDoc.layers[0].groupItems.length;

for(i=length; i>0; i--){
origDoc.activate();
app.executeMenuCommand('deselectall');
origDoc.layers[0].groupItems[i-1].selected = true;
app.cut();
newDoc = app.documents.add();
newDoc.activate();
app.paste();
}

Skipping the loops, even trying to run it only on the first group in a layer will not work as an action:

origDoc = app.activeDocument;

origDoc.activate();
app.executeMenuCommand('deselectall');
origDoc.layers[0].groupItems[0].selected = true;
app.cut();
newDoc = app.documents.add();
app.paste();

The other odd behavior is that the original document still seems to have items within the group selected after running the script even if I try to deselect all. Running the script again, the new documents show up is empty.

I'm not sure if I'm looking in the wrong spot, or didn't download the full SDK, or I'm just inept.

In the help menu of the ESTK, is a Creative Cloud JavaScript Tools Guide, and it mentions several sample scripts:

Code examples for ScriptUI

The sample code distributed with the Adobe ExtendScript SDK includes code examples that specifically demonstrate different ways of building and populating a ScriptUI dialog.

One in particular listed I'd like to peek at, "ColorPicker.jsx", but I can't seem to find any of them.

How to check the raster image resolution in illustrator through script?

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

Often times when designing a logo I create different versions and variable options on layers. This can result in several layers in one Illustrator file. Is there an easy way or an existing script that will allow me to (with one click) create a multi-page PDF consisting of all the layers within my .ai file? The current method is turning on each layer, performing a save-as (PDF), then turning off said layer and turning on the next layer and repeating the task and so-on-and-so-forth, etc … It becomes tedious and quite often I save over the previous version, forgetting to re-name it or forget to perform a save on a certain layer. Can anyone help with some advice? I have never written my own script before but am not opposed to trying, where do I begin?

Any help is appreciated.

Hello!

I have been tying to figure out how I could easily embed multiple linked images easily. I have some 1000 .svg  images which have about 1-7 .tif images linked in to them. I now need to get those links embedded and becouse of the amount of images I'm hoping to make an action out of it. I have a script to embed single image in .svg but haven't have luck with multiple embeddings.

Any ideas?

Is there a way to batch rename artboards in Illustrator CC?

I have 20 different artbords that i want to rename with a specific name and number!

/Pål

Hello there,

I'm modifying a javascript that makes an export of each layer contained in an Illustrator document and I want to specify the method used for anti-aliasing (either Type Optimized or Art Optimized). Similarly to the option under the "Image size" tab in the "Save for the Web" panel.

I didn't find any antiAliasingMethod property in the ExportOptionsPNG24 properties (only an antiAliasing property that accepts boolean). So I wonder if it is actually possible to do it through scripting?

Many thanks,

D

I am allowing the user to input a description. What I am needing is to split up the string they input based on 27 characters.

So if their description is less than 27 characters....

It is a single string and needs to alert them of that.

If their description is more than 27 but less than 54 characters....

I need it to find the space closest to the 27th character, then split the string into 2 lines

If their description is more than 54 but less than 81 characters....

I need it to find the space closest to the 54th character, then split the string into 3 lines

If their description is more than 81 but less than 108 characters....

I need it to find the space closest to the 81st character, then split the string into 4 lines

If their description is more than 108 characters....

Alert that it is really long

Here is a section of code I am working with

                for (z = 0; z < theDocVariables.length; z++) {                    // Start finding variables here                    if (theDocVariables[z].name == "coverPageDecriptionLineOne") {                        if (getText(titleDescription).length < 27){                            alert("single line");                            }                        if (getText(titleDescription).length > 27 && getText(titleDescription).length < 54){                            alert("two line");                            }                        if (getText(titleDescription).length > 54 && getText(titleDescription).length < 81){                            alert("three line");                            }                        if (getText(titleDescription).length > 81 && getText(titleDescription).length < 108){                            alert("four line");                            }                        if (getText(titleDescription).length > 108){                            alert("that's a long freakin description");                            }                        alert("Your title is " + getText(titleDescription).length + " characters in it");                        }

I was wondering if someone could help me edit this Script Written by John Wundes. Its almost perfect for what i need, but my problem is the text box inside of the swatch when it is rendered is to small. Ideally i'd like it to be 90% the size of the actual swatch. I've copied and pasted it here if someone could help i'd greatly appreciate it. I tried asking John on his Blog a few times but i haven't gotten any response. Also i'd like to delete the CMYK values that it returns with just the PMS name only.

Render Swatch Legend v1.1 -- CS, CS2, CS3, CS4, CS5

//>=--------------------------------------

//

//  This script will generate a legend of rectangles for every swatch in the main swatches palette.

//  You can configure spacing and value display by configuring the variables at the top

//  of the script.

//   update: v1.1 now tests color brightness and renders a white label if the color is dark.

//>=--------------------------------------

// JS code (c) copyright: John Wundes ( john@wundes.com ) www.wundes.com

// copyright full text here:  http://www.wundes.com/js4ai/copyright.txt

//

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

    doc = activeDocument,

    swatches = doc.swatches,

    cols = 10,

    displayAs = "CMYKColor",  //or "RGBColor"

    rectRef=null,

    textRectRef=null,

    textRef=null,

    rgbColor=null,

    w=150;

    h=150,

    h_pad = 100,

    v_pad = 100,

    t_h_pad = 100,

    t_v_pad = 100,

    x=null,

    y=null,

    black = new GrayColor(),

    white = new GrayColor()

    ;

    black.gray = 100;

    white.gray = 0;

activeDocument.layers[0].locked= false;

var newGroup = doc.groupItems.add();

newGroup.name = "NewGroup";

newGroup.move( doc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );

for(var c=2,len=swatches.length;c<len;c++)

{

        var swatchGroup = doc.groupItems.add();

        swatchGroup.name = swatches[c].name;

        x= (w+h_pad)*(c% cols);

        y=(h+v_pad)*(Math.floor((c+.01)/cols))*-1 ;

        rectRef = doc.pathItems.rectangle(y,x, w,h);

        rgbColor = swatches[c].color;

        rectRef.fillColor = rgbColor;

        textRectRef =  doc.pathItems.rectangle(y- t_v_pad,x+ t_h_pad, w-(2*t_h_pad),h-(2*t_v_pad));

        textRef = doc.textFrames.areaText(textRectRef);

        textRef.contents = swatches[c].name+ "\r" + getColorValues(swatches[c].color) ;

        textRef.textRange.fillColor = is_dark(swatches[c].color)? white : black;

        //

        rectRef.move( swatchGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );    

        textRef.move( swatchGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING );

        swatchGroup.move( newGroup, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND );

}

function getColorValues(color)

{

        if(color.typename)

        {

            switch(color.typename)

            {

                case "CMYKColor":

                    if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){

                        return ([Math.floor(color.cyan),Math.floor(color.magenta),Math.floor(color.yellow),Math.floor(co lor.black)]);}

                    else

                    {

                        color.typename="RGBColor";

                        return  [Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue)] ;

                    }

                case "RGBColor":

                   if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){

                        return rgb2cmyk(Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue));

                   }else

                    {

                        return  [Math.floor(color.red),Math.floor(color.green),Math.floor(color.blue)] ;

                    }

                case "GrayColor":

                    if(displayAs == "CMYKColor"){

                        return rgb2cmyk(Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray));

                    }else{

                        return [Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray),Math.floor(color.gray)];

                    }

                case "SpotColor":

                    return getColorValues(color.spot.color);

            }   

        }

    return "Non Standard Color Type";

}

function rgb2cmyk (r,g,b) {

var computedC = 0;

var computedM = 0;

var computedY = 0;

var computedK = 0;

//remove spaces from input RGB values, convert to int

var r = parseInt( (''+r).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );

var g = parseInt( (''+g).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );

var b = parseInt( (''+b).replace(/\s/g,''),10 );

if ( r==null || g==null || b==null ||

     isNaN(r) || isNaN(g)|| isNaN(b) )

{

   alert ('Please enter numeric RGB values!');

   return;

}

if (r<0 || g<0 || b<0 || r>255 || g>255 || b>255) {

   alert ('RGB values must be in the range 0 to 255.');

   return;

}

// BLACK

if (r==0 && g==0 && b==0) {

  computedK = 1;

  return [0,0,0,1];

}

computedC = 1 - (r/255);

computedM = 1 - (g/255);

computedY = 1 - (b/255);

var minCMY = Math.min(computedC,

              Math.min(computedM,computedY));

computedC = (computedC - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;

computedM = (computedM - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;

computedY = (computedY - minCMY) / (1 - minCMY) ;

computedK = minCMY;

return [Math.floor(computedC*100),Math.floor(computedM*100),Math.floor(computedY*100),Math.floor (computedK*100)];

}

function is_dark(color){

       if(color.typename)

        {

            switch(color.typename)

            {

                case "CMYKColor":

                    return (color.black>50 || (color.cyan>50 &&  color.magenta>50)) ? true : false;

                case "RGBColor":

                    return (color.red<100  && color.green<100 ) ? true : false;

                case "GrayColor":

                    return color.gray > 50 ? true : false;

                case "SpotColor":

                    return is_dark(color.spot.color);

                return false;

            }

        }

}

I am trying to find a script that will either open a selection of .ai files or run through all the open files in illustrator and complete a Find and Replace. Right now I have a script that runs the Find and Replace but I have to run it on each document instead of all my open files.

var openDocument = app.documents.item(0);  
var search_string = /001D/gi; // g for global search, remove i to make a case sensitive search  
var replace_string = '001E';    
var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames;    
if (text_frames.length > 0)  
{      for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)        {            var this_text_frame = text_frames[i];             var new_string = this_text_frame.contents.replace(search_string, replace_string);                          if (new_string != this_text_frame.contents)                 {                      this_text_frame.contents = new_string;                 }        }  
}

Thanks for any help.

Hi, is there a quick way how to renumber or batch rename all layers in a file so they would be named in consequent numbers? Doesn't have to start from exact number, I was wondering if maybe there is some sort of script that would help me with that? Thanks Pavel

Is it possible to retrieve whats in the clipboard through a script?

If so how?

I am automating copy and paste between two open files in Illustrator.I'm not using CreateFromFile since that strips variable names and otherwise alters the imported pageitems and makes them useless.

For some systems users get an error when the past command is used in the script.

Not much to it, after selected groups on the first document are selected a copy statement is used, the active document is changed, and a paste statement is used. It normally works but only on some combinations of selections on some computers. Adding a redraw() after the target document is activated avoids the error on some computers but not all.

copy();
doc.activate();
redraw();
doc.activeLayer = layerOption;
paste();

An error occurs on the paste(); statement

an illustrator error occurred: 2('')

I've run directly from the ExtendScript toolkit editor and tried adding extra redraws() (to allow adobe to catch up to the scripting) all to no avail.

Any ideas on what I can try?

Hi All,

I'm writing a function to change the artboard size and add bleed depending on certain conditions.

I can't actually believe this is causing me trouble but here it is, I'm trying to set the bleed dimensions in AI document with Javascript. All I've found so far is setting up PDF export options or print options, but not the actual artboard Document Setup. I just want to be able to set bleed to a newly created document like in this window:

So similar to Indesign:

with(myDocument.documentPreferences){  documentBleedUniformSize = true;  documentBleedTopOffset = 7;  }

(CC2017)

Dear All,

I've been trying to add and remove certain pieces of text based on their font and whenever I need to add a certain piece of text back into it's original place again I need to insert a superscript 2 after this text.

This is the piece of code in which I add the text back in again:

if (textGroupItem.textRange.characterAttributes.textFont.toString().toLowerCase().match(regP attern)){

                textGroupItem.textRange.characters.removeAll()

                textGroupItem.textRange.characters.add(un + " - " + sm + "m" + "²")

}

This doens't give a superscript 2 but some kind of broken token as text.

So far i've also tried:

- translatePlaceholderText("c2b2")

- "2".sup()

-  ²

- textGroupItem.textRange.characterAttributes.baselineShift = height;  <-- height = 2 but this shifts the whole text item

How can you succesfully add a supercript 2 to a group of characters?