I need to set the (PANTONE) Stroke color of a filled path to a lighter tint of the Fill of the path item.

Is it as easy as :

    item.strokeColor = item.fillColor;

    item.strokeColor.tint  -= 15;

My problem is that I am new to ESTK Java scripting but have 25+ years of object oriented programming (C++, C# etc.) and in my mind the first statement makes the stroke color reference the same color objectas the fill, and hence the second statement changes the tint of the fill also.

What I observe when I try this is that the tint of the fill is not affected, but I am concerned that I am breaking something by having multiple references to the same underlying object.

Does the assignment of the color perform a deep copy of the color object?

Thanks

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Hello all,

I am very new to the scripting world but have an issue that I was unsuccessful in resolving myself through googling and searching around. It may be impossible due to illustrator's set up but I am looking for a script to find and replace strings of text throughout a document. I realize in indesign this would be easy as all get out, but due to other limitations I am forced to use Illustrator.

I would need the script to search and find strings in both text boxes and text objects (or 2 scripts could work). I would be looking for something to find and replace as well as style for instance, find AA and replace with AA(registration mark) and superscript the registration mark. I would need to be able to do this for multiple instances of this string on a document. Is something like this possible?

Thanks in advance!

Hi,

Can it be possible to convert .ai file into .doc file or any tool which will do this conversion.

Thanks,

Shail

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had a simple solution to aligning selected items to the artboard. I was going to create an action but then realized it would be more convenient for me to include it in my script file....I have a script to align objects with each other but they dont align to the artboard. Any suggestions?

Hi , I am developing a project using Adobe Illustrator CC 2018 and Extendscript Toolkit on MacOS High Sierra. My doubt is :

Is it possible for Adobe to customize the 'SaveDlg()' file class function for macOS ,since one of the parameters of 'SaveDlg([prompt][,preset])' does not support filter expressions on MacOs using Extendscript ToolKit because of which I am not shown with the "File Format" field on Save As Dialog box written within Script folder of AI Shadow tool on MacOS.

Please help me out on this.

Thank You.

Message was edited by: Shruti Metta

[ moved from Adobe Creative Cloudto Illustrator Scriptingby moderator ]

Hallo Forum,

I would create a script to have keyword standards.

In EXCEL i create a controlled namespace trougth comboboxes to save the files in an controlled way. The Metadata should be a controlled way to avoid "phantasie"-names. Having this values I would insert this strings in the XMP:KEYWORD field. In this way with the bridge I can retrive the information.

xmp.string = word1, word2, word3, ...

I use VBA and at the moment I have this but it doesn't work.

Sub meta_add ()

dim w1 as string

w1 = "hallo world"

document.xmpString.add.w1

end sub

Somebody can help me with the basic? JAVA would be welcomed too !!!

Thank you

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?

Hello,

I'm simply trying to send send 2 variables through BT to PS from IA to create a new document of the specified size.  Why isn't this working, please?  It works fine if I substitute numbers for the variables in the body of the script.

#target illustrator;

var artWidth = 100;

var artHeight = 100;

var bt = new BridgeTalk;

      bt.target = "photoshop";         

       var script = "app.documents.add(artWidth,artHeight);"       

       bt.body = script;

       bt.send();

Thank you for saving my sanity, again!

Hi!

I'm looking for a script that will allow you to select some objects or symbols in your AI-file and then select some of your symbols from the symbols-library in your file and then randomly replace the original objects/symbols with the symbols selected. I have found a few scripts that does basically this but with random replacement of selected colours, transparency or angles but I need one for randomly replacing symbols.

Can someone help?

I am wondering if anyone has been able to figure out what kind of "LiveEffectXML" is a parameter to PageItem.applyEffect()

It's been years since this feature has been out, but no documentation anywhere.

I have some SVG graphics where the features/polygons 'hang out' over the edge of my artboard by a tiny amount. Is there a way (via script) of cropping all my shapes such that nothing hangs out over the edge of the artboard?

I have some script that creates a rectangle which is the exact size of my artboard. Using the menus (not script) I can then use that rectangle as a clipping mask over everything else which makes everything appear to be cropped, although what I'd actually like to do is properly, permanently modify all my polygons, rather than just having a visible clipping mask (and I need to do it all in script too). I'm then exporting the SVG files (hundreds of them) to DXF and what I don't want is coordinates of polygons that fall outside of the defined artboard boundary.

These are tesselating map tiles that are eventually making their way to GIS software to form a much larger map, so I don't want these little slivers of overhanging features as they end up overlapping each other at teh tile boundaries in teh final map.

Thanks!

this my code Load and unload a Action in Illustrator. But Action Set [Test_Set_Action] still exist after unload .

oIllustrator.loadAction("C:\Test_Set_Action.aia")

oIllustrator.unloadAction("Test_Set_Action", "CVCMYK")

How delete a Action Set [Test_Set_Action] after unload by Script?

Or check [Test_Set_Action]  still exist?

im very new to illustrator and i have not done scripting before, i have like a hundred illustrator files that i need to change the background color lets say background color is layer 5 for every file, can scripting make it like repeat changing the background color for all my files, i would really appreciate some help with how to start writing a script, thank you

I have been scripting Adobe products for a few years, and I am utterly confused how to access the "Creative Cloud Libraries" through script? Are there any docs on how to get references to the objects? I would like to access my "Creative Cloud Libraries" by name, and access all the assets in that "Creative Cloud Libraries"?

Curious to know if anyone has figured out how to access the "Creative Cloud Libraries" through script?

Thanks!

Scott

I want to encode non roman alphabets as greek, russian etc, when exporting SVGs, how could I achieve that with ExtendScript?

Thank you

I have an 8x10 template but the artboard needs to be larger than the template's page size. I can open the template and resize the artboard to the larger size but the contents of the original template still need to be centered on the new artboard. The artboard is the right position, all of the original template's objects need to be repositioned.

With the GUI it's easy, just select the entire layer with the template contents and enter a new x,y position. In Javascript there is no position setting for an entire layer as a single unit.

Other alternatives I've tried:

1. Create a new doc with the right size and use groupItems.createFromFile() for the template - centers the template: strips off the names of all objects and basically makes a hash of the original template. No good since I need those path and group names intact. Why couldn't it just work like Corel's import?
   
2. Create a new doc, open the template, use copy and paste to copy template layers into the new document. Slow and uses up lots of memory. It works ok if there's a border around the template page that makes the centering work.It also works for multiple layers and centers the contents of all layers as a single unit.
   

One thing I can think of is that groupItems can be positioned so I could put everything in the layer into a single group and move that new group and then move everything back out of the group. This doesn't work for multiple layers unless I want to merge them (which I don't).

Any other suggestions on positioning the contents of one or more layers to be centered on the page? Multiple layers would need to keep their original relative positions.

Is there a way to write a script to copy a selected/chosen artboard (and it's contents) to another opened document, placing it in exactly the same place on the global x/y coordinates?  I'm either unable to find this feature built in to Illustrator, or it's simply missing.  Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Tim

Can someone help me or guide me to the right direction of how to do this?

Basically, this is what I want the script to do

1. Make artboard the size of my selected artwork + 1" offset

2. Create a circle at each of the corner of the artboard

I figured out the script for #1 but I can't find figure out #2. Could anyone help?

Thanks in advance

This should be fairly easy, I have tried to make one myself, but haven't gotten it right yet.

What I need to accomplish:

Have a script delete Layers by name, even if locked / hidden / have sublayers with art.

Example Layers:

Anchor Point

Center guides

Original

Also something not case sensitive would be preferable.

I started by just repeating this "app.activeDocument.layers.getByName('Anchor Point').remove();" with the different layers typed in, but it errors out when it tries to remove a layer that's not there in the specific file.