Knowing Illustrator operates at 72ppi, I'm looking for clarification on how the resampling works when exporting higher resolution. If I have a 300ppi image inside a 72ppi document and export at 300dpi, is it resampling the image @ ~416%? Or is it 300dpi at the physical dimension of the artboard in inches? Mainly asking, as the pixel dimensions are 1000 pixels(AI and Bridge) @ 72dpi, vs exporting @ 300dpi it's 4167 pixels. The links panel looks like the dimensions match the 300dpi export, but just curious as the measurements are a bit confusing. Looks to me like the image is 300dpi based on the physical size of the document and not the pixel dimensions. ... View more

I created a script that creates guides in the current document, the problem was if you don't check to see if they exist first, it'll keep making the same guide over and over again. Was trying to use switch cases, for logic on horizontal vs vertical, and may have gotten a bit too verbose, looping through multiple arrays. Is there a more straight forward way to accomplish checking the document for guides and creating if they don't exist?     function psGuideCheck(guideToCheck, gDir) { var aDG = app.activeDocument.guides; var gResult = false; if (aDG.length > 0) { for (var i = 0; i < aDG.length; i++) { if (guideToCheck == Math.round(aDG[i].coordinate.as('px')) && gDir == aDG[i].direction) { var gResult = true; break; } } } return gResult; } function psCreateGuides(cropLeft, cropTop, cropRight, cropBottom) { var actDocG = app.activeDocument.guides; var yLoc = [Math.round(cropTop), Math.round(cropBottom)]; var xLoc = [Math.round(cropLeft), Math.round(cropRight)]; var yDir = Direction.HORIZONTAL; var xDir = Direction.VERTICAL; //Loop Through Horizontal guides for (var i = 0; i < yLoc.length; i++) { var yPxGd = UnitValue(yLoc[i], "px").as('px'); //converts to the right value, and removes " px" from the end if (psGuideCheck(yPxGd,yDir) == false) actDocG.add(yDir, UnitValue(yLoc[i], "px")); } //Loop Through Vertical Guides for (var i = 0; i < xLoc.length; i++) { var xPxGd = UnitValue(xLoc[i], "px").as('px'); //converts to the right value, and removes " px" from the end if (psGuideCheck(xPxGd,xDir) == false) actDocG.add(xDir, UnitValue(xLoc[i], "px")); } } psCreateGuides(-75, -75, 75, 75);       ... View more

I've found a few older threads on Smart Objects, but none with a direct solution in this forum for getting smart object attributes. Some of the older threads reference a try catch around placing a layer to determine if it's embedded:   executeAction( stringIDToTypeID( "placedLayerConvertToEmbedded" ), undefined, DialogModes.NO );     I did find this thread on Stack Overflow, and am wondering if there are any other direct methods of getting info from a smart object. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63010107/get-a-smart-objects-layers-files-directory-source-in-jsx I've compiled a few separate scripts to determine the extension of the smart object, to evaluate if it's vector or raster. Is there a more direct way to evaluate smart objects? I use script listener, but not well enough to understand how I can generate a true false value etc. ... View more

I'm trying to activate finder with osascript, this command works directly in terminal, but will not work when called through doScript. Works in terminal: osascript -e 'tell application \"finder\" to activate Causes error being called through InDesign app.doScript("osascript -e 'tell application \"finder\" to activate", ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);   Here is the error: Eval Error (#-2740): "A unknown token can’t go after this identifier." in '/Users/PATH TO SCRIPT/script.jsx' [6:undefined] in host 'indesign-19.064 (main)'. This alternative seems to work: app.doScript('do shell script "open -a finder"', ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage) Right before this, I run a function that opens a finder window, then I launch an alert through indesign so it steals focus, and I want to activate finder as the last step. Is there a way with OSA script? Just wondering if it's possible in case I needed to run additional steps. ... View more

Trying to reset the value of app.activeDocument.info.title to nothing, but it won't overwrite //Works app.activeDocument.info.title = "TEST"; //Doesn't work app.activeDocument.info.title = "" Is there a way to achieve this with info.title or do I have to go through metadata directly?  ... View more

I'm trying to add to a log script I've written to take the contents of Patterns into consideration. The log looks for extras in files like pattern swatches, raster images, brushes, symbols and live text, but of course can't find anything inside of patterns. It looks like the only menu command that will actually expand patterns is "Expand3" but that launches an alert. Is there another option other than saving down to a previous version of illustrator and embedding? I did some brief testing, and depending on how far back I go, it still launches a dialog for legacy text. ... View more