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‎Aug 29, 2025
01:54 PM
1 Upvote
This one gets the job done https://github.com/Silly-V/Adobe-Illustrator/blob/master/Script%20Panel%202/ScriptPanel_2.jsx
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‎Aug 14, 2025
04:12 PM
If you say predefined in such a way that you could capture them as graphic styles, then actions could at least apply the graphic style by name.
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‎Jul 30, 2025
06:23 PM
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‎Jun 24, 2025
10:49 AM
Please stand by for an email - direct support is coming to you from the team!
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‎Jun 19, 2025
10:11 PM
1 Upvote
That's good to know! Thanks for sharing the solution which worked for you.
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‎Jun 19, 2025
04:30 PM
1 Upvote
This appears to be an issue with UI scaling. Try to edit UI scaling in your Display resolution on your operating system. It may then show all the items, but your screen may get really small-detailed. However, it's possible to cycle the dropdown options using the arrow keys, and it may be also an alternative to create a custom "popup" dialog which has a ListBox, and here you can build in a fuzzy-search input to help filter or find any list items.
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‎Jun 19, 2025
02:56 PM
To clarify: Importing straight from Excel means there's elimination of problems regarding the encoding of characters when traditionally exporting to CSV. Multi-binding of variables causes problems with data-sets as observed. Native variables are susceptible to undesired behaviors such as popping up the 'edited' * asterisk sometimes with no understood cause. That's why, in VariableImporter it has the "Cycle and Update" datasets button. This helps to fix graph variables, and mostly the Visibility variable which causes the update-issue. The update issue itself is because of round-trip workflow, where you make edits in the art and want to get back the text that the designer wrote. However for most workflows - the one-way from data-to-art is the desired way, so in this regard "Darty-Ai" is optimized by avoiding the issues of native variables. Mainly we are curious if this would work for your case - whether even with "Darty-Ai", if you see the same issues - in which case we would be very keen on figuring them out and fixing them for all the potential customers of the world!
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‎Jun 19, 2025
02:50 PM
Can you try the evolution of VariableImporter - the new extension called Darty-Ai? It is totally free at base-level with 'credits' where you ought to more than satisfy a localization workflow of < 200 outputs free per month! It imports straight from Excel - which shoul circumvent a lot of the issues native variables face. Please read our blog here: https://darty.ai/darty-ai-replaces-native-illustrator-variables-modernizes-the-creative-vdp-workflow/
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‎Jun 14, 2025
06:53 AM
Are you sure you are putting it where it should be? groupItem.hidden = false; groupItem.selected = true; If the item is first set to hidden = false, then it ought to be selectable and not throw any error. Make sure you insert here: if (groupItem.name === name) {
groupItem.hidden = false;
groupItem.selected = true;
}
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‎Jun 13, 2025
11:49 PM
If you start with no selection, it should be possible to put what you tried right below the line: groupItem.hidden = false; groupItem.selected = true; What happens when you try doing this? Ideally it should leave all the items selected.. but there could be a chance a post-process of some kind is doing its own thing whether intentionally or inadvertantly, which could negate the selection efforts.
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‎Jun 12, 2025
10:41 PM
1 Upvote
I really like this project, curious about more information on how you intend to use this. Is the goal to be able to write any text, run it through this procedure which may involve this or other "background shapes" files, and create typographic designs? Well, anyway - the issue is due to the amount of paths. The way Mr GPT did it, is quite basic, so it thinks you have a typical document with just a text-frame and one square and one circle, etc. But, what you have is a rich background with many many shapes, after a while it catastrophically slows down the scripting when it tries to go through them. To fix this, you could: Consolidate the shapes into distinct groups, so in your Layer on the layers panel, it shows a minimal amount of top-level items. Ensure that these groups have ONE clear boundary shape (this can be a pain, but use Actions to go through the shapes and duplicate + add them to form the contour), and label it some certain name, so that this contour can be used for the hit tests. Explain to ChatGPT the situation and what you are doing, so it re-makes the script taking into account that you now only have top-level groups in some layer, and inside each of the top-level groups you have one path-item called something, which is your hit-test contour. Try the new code to see if it doesn't crash your application and does your action as you want. UPD: I just looked at some of the code and it appears that ChatGPT had misled you in a case of classic hallucinatory well-meaning advice. No optimization would fix this code, as I do not believe any such thing as .hitTest() exists. So, next what to do: well, you can: Still consolidate the shapes into some groups that have a contour that could be used by a potential true hit test. Get it to spew out the proper math function that does the hit test, whether using mathematics or using Pathfinder. If none of this is going well, maybe you could try this: Pre-make all your letters, slice them up into cubes like they are chopped potatoes. Make such a script that will place your letter groups, then go through the 'cubes' in the sliced-up letters, convert each one at a time, to a small artboard. then have your script use a tried & true hit-test using artboards and selecting objects on active artboard. Now, you can have this script isolate the selected items to copy to a final layer and remove any duplicates which may have been used for utility in this operation.
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‎Jun 12, 2025
10:22 PM
Yes, I also had this same thing happen - the walking, and the dog and the solution! True story. So, yes I believe, your shapes simply need be as one single line of comma-delimited words. Okay super, glad it works for you. By the way, what if, a sheik finds your services for a guap - and what if, some day you end up migrating to CC - then hopefully that one plugin called "Darty-Ai", would be of value to you! Meanwhile, you can do a lot with CS6, and with today's ChatGPT + these forums - it should be fairly unlimited for all kinds of needs, with CS6. That's because they added some powerful features which were not in CS5-, for scripting - but I already forgot what those features were. I think that's when they allowed us to run the actions via script, I think it was some kind of really big deal. Anyways, some folks have still CS4... respect!
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‎Jun 12, 2025
11:14 AM
Aha, it's because of my rookie mistake. It was showing the stuff it hid! But now, it goes through layers, only worries about the Groups, which should be faster by leaving alone the nested shape. It pre-hides all the groups in the layer, then turns on just the ones we need! Try this: function test () {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var shapeNamesFrame = doc.textFrames.getByName("shape-names");
var shapeNameArray = shapeNamesFrame.contents.split(/,/g);
for (var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++) {
var layer = doc.layers[i];
for (var k = 0; k < layer.groupItems.length; k++) {
var groupItem = layer.groupItems[k];
groupItem.hidden = true;
}
for (var j = 0; j < shapeNameArray.length; j++) {
var name = shapeNameArray[j];
for (var k = 0; k < layer.groupItems.length; k++) {
var groupItem = layer.groupItems[k];
if (groupItem.name === name) {
groupItem.hidden = false;
}
}
}
}
}
test();
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‎Jun 12, 2025
09:37 AM
Ok, assuming you have this one text-box, and it is bound to your variables, and named the word "shape-names". This is the script: function test () {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var shapeNamesFrame = doc.textFrames.getByName("shape-names");
var shapeNameArray = shapeNamesFrame.contents.split(/,/g);
for (var i = 0; i < shapeNameArray.length; i++) {
var name = shapeNameArray[i];
for (var j = 0; j < doc.layers.length; j++) {
var layer = doc.layers[j];
for (var k = 0; k < layer.pageItems.length; k++) {
var pageItem = layer.pageItems[k];
pageItem.hidden = pageItem.name === name;
}
}
}
}
test(); Stick it into the Menu Items so that your action can play it - let's see if it works! Just ensure that this text-frame is bound to your variable and is named accordingly, and that you concatenate all your shape names with a comma (in this case).
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‎Jun 12, 2025
08:20 AM
This would work: have some hidden or visible text-frame which gets your shape names. And 2nd part: a script which is activated each data-set via your Batch Action processing which finds the one text-frame containing your shape name(s) and reads the populated contents of that text-frame to obtain the name(s). Then it would go through all the top-level layer's pageItems to hide all except whose names are determined to be matching your CSV. Does this sound like it can work for your workflow?
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‎Jun 09, 2025
03:15 PM
UPD: I see you said you use CS6, in which case.. sorry to say, the following is not applicable until version 2024. AI is and should only ever be, Adobe Illustrator! What they traditionally market nowadays is actually, "HI", for hallucinatory intelligence. By the way, by the way, "Darty-Ai" not only imports straight from Excel, but now - it can do so directly from Google Sheets and OneDrive sheets... from online! I recommend trying it out to see if the plugin itself functions on your system, then await our upcoming upgrade for next week: remote data access, convenient like never before!
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‎Jun 01, 2025
10:34 AM
You may be interested in a variable-data extension that is currently out called "Darty-Ai". It can do all that you wish using Excel/spreadsheets, including the clipping and moving art about layers/groups, with changing colors, etc. https://darty.ai
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‎May 31, 2025
02:08 PM
I was away on 'business' for some years, but if you remember what the SVG-path issue was - let me know, I may be able to fix it up.
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‎May 28, 2025
07:17 PM
Indeed, the auto-binding feature of the VariableImporter makes it possible to name the object in the Layers panel and have it be automatically bound to the corresponding column in the data-sheet, by column-title.
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‎May 27, 2025
03:02 PM
2 Upvotes
Good news, this extension has now been created! It's at https://darty.ai - check it out! It can have as many fields as one wants, by using custom export-path variables, of which there can be any amount.
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‎Apr 14, 2025
07:33 AM
2 Upvotes
You know, this works and it is quite convenient: https://github.com/Silly-V/Adobe-Illustrator/blob/master/Script%20Panel%202/ScriptPanel_2.jsx
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‎Oct 11, 2024
10:42 AM
2 Upvotes
In my case and anything I foresee in the future for it, I saw how the items that are not associated with an 'on-page' item can have a parent of XmlStory, and although I have not used parentPage as of yet, I was able to eliminate going down the branch that had the 'phantom' items by sensing if the xmlContent's parent was an XmlStory. I noticed that the Root was parented by XmlStory, so I made my collection method to ignore items which such a parent type of their xmlContent when it's one-level down. Maybe this isn't quite correct, but for me just in the cases where I delete a page - it works.
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‎Oct 08, 2024
08:36 AM
So it just sounds like the non-associated XML should just be removed, yea? Thank you for the detailed investigation and insights!
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‎Oct 08, 2024
07:34 AM
Yes, the file is attached here.
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‎Oct 08, 2024
05:31 AM
Hello! There is an issue I am experiencing where when a page is deleted that used to have structure somehow has one piece of the structure thinking there's still a document element attached to it. Does anyone have advice on how to detect these items? I think maybe they all have "XMLStory" as the page-element parent at the top of it all, just thinking.
I would like to create a method that can be fed an XML element, and it needs to find its XML parents all the way to the top, and return true if the parent of the xmlContent is an instance of XMLStory. Apparently the ones which do not have a representation in the pages are called "XMLStory", which under it has some kind of all valid elements even if they are not on the document pages. I found some issue which may be a bug, where indeed I was getting a false positive with the parentTextFrame technique for one item and sure enough, when I visited it in the XML Structure panel, it had a "Go to Item" menu option available. However, clicking this option just made InDesign unresponsive for a second, before in the XML Structure it underlined the nodes (this is what it does when it 'selects' an item on the page normally related to an XML node), but nothing effectively happens in the document. So the problem as I would like to call it is "phantom XML".
I wish to ignore all these non-existing-item XML nodes, does anyone have an idea on how to accomplish this?
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‎Nov 02, 2022
01:36 AM
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This kind of work is probably in the same vein what you had to do with the liveEffects catalogue!
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‎Nov 01, 2022
08:27 AM
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https://github.com/Silly-V/Adobe-TS-ExtendScript/blob/master/AdobeTypes/xmp.d.ts
I saw that there was no types file for XMP. It seemed that for VSCode this is one of the more obscure apis that had no online types file. So I copied the whole set of information from the xmp javascript online tools guide documentation page and put it into a typescript declarations format.
It is kind of helpful, maybe it can be made even better. However, it seems ok to start using.
At the end of the file is an example of making an array and putting custom object elements into it.
Using this types file combined with the online doc, an ESTK debugger of the old kind which I happened to have, it made the process of dissecting and figuring out the example code easier. I got the hint about using bracket accessors and a one-based index as the field-name from here: https://indisnip.wordpress.com/2010/09/07/storing-custom-data-into-indesign-file-xmp/
// * Making an array which contains object elements with properties.
var theFile = File("~/Desktop/test.pdf");
if (xmpLib==undefined) var xmpLib = new ExternalObject('lib:AdobeXMPScript');
var xmpFile = new XMPFile(theFile.fsName, XMPConst.UNKNOWN, XMPConst.OPEN_FOR_UPDATE);
var xmpPackets = xmpFile.getXMP();
var mt = new XMPMeta(xmpPackets.serialize());
XMPMeta.registerNamespace("http://ns.my-special-namespace/1.0/", "myNs:");
var arrayToSet = [
{ name : "ABC", width : 50, height : 100 },
{ name : "Name-2", width : 125, height : 75 },
];
mt.setProperty("http://ns.my-special-namespace/1.0/", "mySpecialArray", "", XMPConst.PROP_IS_ARRAY);
for (var i = 0; i < arrayToSet.length; i++) {
var oneBasedIndex = i + 1;
var x = arrayToSet[i];
mt.setStructField("http://ns.my-special-namespace/1.0/", "mySpecialArray[" + oneBasedIndex + "]", XMPConst.NS_RDF, "name", x.name);
mt.setStructField("http://ns.my-special-namespace/1.0/", "mySpecialArray[" + oneBasedIndex + "]", XMPConst.NS_RDF, "width", x.width);
mt.setStructField("http://ns.my-special-namespace/1.0/", "mySpecialArray[" + oneBasedIndex + "]", XMPConst.NS_RDF, "height", x.height);
}
if (xmpFile.canPutXMP(xmpPackets)) {
xmpFile.putXMP(mt);
}
xmpFile.closeFile(XMPConst.CLOSE_UPDATE_SAFELY);
// app.open(theFile); // View the result XMP in the app
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‎Oct 26, 2022
04:37 PM
1 Upvote
Very good, this worked! Thank you.
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‎Oct 25, 2022
12:53 PM
I am actually able to achieve my goal which is to make Bridge to go a folder using the document thumbnail property. However, Bridge never comes up front like I wish it would, here on Win11. Does Bridge stay in the background for you? I tried to bring it with BridgeTalk.bringToFront("bridge"), but to no avail.
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‎Aug 29, 2022
07:37 AM
You can also use text threading. Thread two text frames, they can have individual graphic styles. When text is too large for the first text frame, it will spill over into the next one that is threaded. With hyphenation and justification controls you can somewhat manipulate the way this happens. A technique with multiple styles could be made whereby empty spaces are used to create the next-lines and push a non-whitespace text to the 2nd or 3rd text frame. For this to work though, you have to know in advanced about how long the typical text character count is.
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