CS5 on Yosemite ESTK performance
This is a very specific scenario: I'm running legacy CS5 on the new Yosemite OS on my Mac laptop, with the Java Runtime 6 making it...
View Article$.fileName from ExtendScript
I think this one is a bug, maybe introduced with the latest Illustrator CC 2014 update... This is Illustrator CC 2014 running on Windows 7. I have a simple script like this:#target...
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[ANN] New Extension in beta test.
Script Slot, It makes custom menu in Illustrators window menu and make some slot that you can set Javascript(Extendscript) and Applescript(application) file and add shortcut key combination like below....
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Want to print the Links in my Artboard
Hi All, I would like to print the links which were embedded as links with a particular artboard.Please see the below snapshot. The Image name at the top left which is shown in the bar I want to print...
View ArticleConvert .ai to .doc
Hi, Can it be possible to convert .ai file into .doc file or any tool which will do this conversion. Thanks,Shail
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Can the poor performance of createOutline() be increased?
I wrote a little Script converting an Array of Strings to outlines for SVG export. I however find the results of createOutline() extremely unsatisfactory, especially when compared to the results of...
View ArticleSetting script to user preference automatically
Hello fellow scripters! This months questions is this - Is it possible for Illustrator JS to go and grab the current username that is logged into a computer or even the computer ID? As of right now...
View ArticleBatch combine files into one illustrator document - how to open target document?
I am making a script which will: 1) Open a folder of Illustrator files2) Open each file in the folder (these files are called the source files)3) Select all the contents of the source file4) Copy the...
View ArticleExtract text from illustrator for translation then replace with translated text
I am trying to find a way to expedite translations of our drawings. Each drawing has a series of callouts showing what that piece of the drawing is via text. I would need to do 100's of drawings for...
View ArticleRename artboards using their numbers
I need a script or action or rtfm-quote that renames all artboards (may be selected only, but I see no use of it) with default pattern ('Artboard X'), where X is an actual number of artboard.I'm a bit...
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 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 ArticleHow do I access the art-tree for a particular layer?
when I use targetLayer = sourceDoc.layers [i];msg += targetLayer.length + '\r'; I get undefined returned for targetLayer.length var msg = "List of visbile layers\r"// a work in progress towards a...
View Articleapp.open(); Doubts
Hello guys I wrote a script to open files of a specific folder, simple. Just get some items from a folder and insert it to a listbox, but when there is no one document open in illustrator the script...
View ArticleTo assign keyboard shortcut for Play Current Action button in Illustrator?
Hello friends... I created Action workflow of various command and I added many stop command between my workflow so that i can perform such that that cannot automate by action. Now I also asign...
View ArticleCalling functions from UI palette
Hello,From what I understand, you can't call complex functions from a scripted UI palette, only from "dialog" windows (which are usless in my case) because I need the persistance of a palette. I have...
View ArticleSelecting every nth object in my selection
Hi, I am trying to create a script that selects every nth (right now its set to be 2, so every 2nd) path in my selection. Somehow this script works just a bit but very unreliable. Sometimes it creates...
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color setting
Hi Experts, I need to change my document color setting. I tried the below code and it is working fine for loading CSF files. var filespec = new File('/Library/Application...
View ArticleToggling "Align to Pixel Grid" to improve createOutline()
Hello, is there any way to programmatically switch OFF the "Align to Pixel Grid" option in the Transform panel? A hidden app.executeMenuCommand to do so? Looking to do so whenever the createOutline()...
View Articlescripting with cc libraries ?
I've written some scripts to place objects in illustrator or photoshop files, from a source folder on my computer.Can I upload the files in the souce folder to a CC Library, and read the data from the...
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