Problem with compound path clipping
I have a compound path, which I want to use as a clipping path. so, I set the "clipping" property of it's child pathItems to "true", then added them all to a clipped layer, as the following code...
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Fix Space (not in starting of line)
Hi All, I am new to Illustrator Scripting. But I am from Indesign Backround. First script in Illustrator Request:1. Need to fix the double or more space into single space. 2. But need to retain in the...
View ArticleCan anyone help with with this dialog?
I have put together a dialog but I'm not sure how to get it working properly... 1) I want the checkbox to disable the last 3 fields and make their value be the same as the first field.2) have the...
View Articleis there a script to load images into illustrator to a grid composition.
Hi. is there a script to load images into illustrator to a grid composition. I need only 1 artboard. The out put is to print a mural. I need to load aprox. 1600 images. Somebody in the illustrator...
View ArticleScript: rename layers?
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...
View ArticleScript to change links for many files
Does anyone have any suggestions or pointers to a solution for changing the file path for links in an Illustrator document? For example, let's say my Illustrator document is stored...
View ArticleBatching In Illustrator??
In PhotoShop CS3, you can select File/Automate/Batch, and run an Action on an entire folder. I don't see that option in Illustrator CS3? Is there a way to run an action on an entire folder? I'm...
View ArticleScript to Make all text Dynamic
Is there a way or a script that will make all the text on a page Dynamic? At the moment we have to select each text box and press 'make text dynamic', which can get tiresome with a lot of text boxes....
View ArticleDimension Illustrator CS6
Does anyone know of a script that will automatically put dimensions on rectangular shapes in Illustrator CS6?
View ArticleGetting 1346458189 ('PARM') error
From the readme:"An Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM')" alert (1459349) Affects: JavaScript Problem: This alert may be popped when badly written scripts are repeatedly run...
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an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM')
Hello everyone, I am trying to open some documents in Illustrator CS4 by javascript, walk through all layers including sublayers, doing something (for now just reading the layernames and showing them...
View ArticleApplying/Editing Fill and Opacity Values to Gradients?
Running off of previously answered question here. Trying to see what I would have to call to adjust values of each stop in a gradient, specifically the fill.tint and opacity values. I would like to...
View ArticleTrouble assigning TextFrame to Justification.Left
Hello,I need some help trouble shooting a script. I am trying to flip the justification for all of a selected set of text frames. However, while most types of flipping work properly, the following does...
View ArticlePlace PDF Pages in Illustrator
Carlos, you created a script i believe called AI_openMultiPagePDF. And that is awesome, However i was wondering if you could change it just a bit and instead of opening the files, could you use the...
View ArticleIllustrator VBA scripting 101 - via Excel
This post will attempt to introduce newcomers to Illustrator Visual Basic Scripting (well, not actually vbs, but rather tru VBA, Visual Basic for Applications). I personally prefer vba over bvs for a...
View ArticleCopy to new artboard with transformation in VBA
Hallo Forum, I have the common problem to resize the artboard to standardize technical illustrations to the format 50x50mm. So I found good help in the forum (thank you). I have some problem and may...
View ArticleIs there a way to add duplicated groupitems to the artboard thats active?
var y = -50; //artboard top margin to place artvar x = 43; //artboard left margin to place artvar actIdx = docRef.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex();var actAB = docRef.artboards[actIdx]; for (i = 0; i...
View ArticleDrawing a rectangle of exact size of the artboard?
Has anybody written a JS script to to draw a rectangle on an active document which would be exact size as the document's artboard?I find it very inaccurate and cumbersome trying to draw such rectangle...
View ArticleCSV parser...
Does anyone have some good CSV parsing code they could share? I've got one that's been working fairly well, but now I need to also be able to parse embedded line breaks and the code I'm using handles...
View ArticleScript errors and a question
//Created by Daryl R. Smith //This is the tab for Totes #target illustrator var thisDoc = app.activeDocument; if (thisDoc.selection.length > 0) { var w = new Window ("dialog", "Choose Totes...
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