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Need to create triangle using angle inputs

Hi All, i need to create custom trianlge with angle inputs example (30º ,45º, 60º). In the below script links i could find only 2 angles and 1side as input. Custom Angled Triangles Question Any...

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Anti-aliasing Type Optimized/Art Optimized on PNG export

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...

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How can I improve the script performance?

Hi, I wrote an application in VB.NET. This application is using Illustrator to import a drawing in DWG format. Then I change some colors and lines in different layers. Everything works fine! But it is...

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drop shadow of the art item

Hi All,I want get drop shadow of the path item in javascript.is it possible ? RegardsAshish.

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illustrator Spiral Shrinking/Growin text, scaling down/up on spiral path

First of all thanks in advance for anyone who may assist, or make this even possible...... (please contanct me ADAM    razo.ad1985     --->G.mail) In dire need of expertise assistante. Years ago I...

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Add Margins in Illustrator

I have made this little script to quickly add margins to an illustrator document and am posting it here to anyone that might find this helpful. The script will bring up a dialog where you can enter the...

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Drawing 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...

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Extract 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...

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Move paths to another layer VB-script

Hello.This is my first post on this forum. I need help with making a script that selects all the paths in a document that has a certain line width, for example 3 pt, and move them to a specific...

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Relative file path/folder (AppleScript)

How do I set a folder as a realtive path to where the script is running??   is there any easy way like in unix, starting without / ?or for example  "~/Desktop/" "/users/<login>/desktop/" seems...

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Calling 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...

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Move layers to new artboard

Hi everybody, I'm trying to create a script via javascript for Illustrator. My problem is : I have a AI file with multiple layers, i want to create one artboard per layer, in order to export a...

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script to align selected objects to artboard

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...

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Getting 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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Batch export .ai files to pdf

Hi guys, I found a script that does the job, export tones of ai files to pdf, but I have some files which are in sub folders, and I was trying to find a way to modify this script to include subfolder,...

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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...

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Is it possible to create droplet?

Is it possible to create a droplet in "illustrator cs"?

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check duplicate text in illustrator

Hi all, I need to check the duplicate text in the eps files. (i.e) In the images the text frames are same for example "apple" text which appears in the eps files more than 2 or etc. How to check....

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Call c++ with JSX

Hi all, I was advised that I could call c++ libraries if I wanted to use some command that DOM didn't offer. I wanted to give it a try with the "select all" command but I never figured it out.I found...

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Script for Selecting Open Paths in Illustrator CS6

I have created this script for selecting open paths in illustrator cs6 as the graffix plugin is not working under CS6.  Just save the following text in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator...

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