Actions leaving out some steps

Question

I recorder few actions with these steps:

Paste in front
Resize
Rotate
Move (and copy) * 4

It happened several times, that the action left out a single step in the sequance - e.g. left out rotate or resize but continued with the rest. It never left out the first step in sequence though. Always second or third. And without any alerts/errors from AI.

When I undo the steps with Ctrl+Z and start the action again, it runs ok and goes through all the steps (so the action is recorded fine).

Sometimes it happens, when i use the given action for the first time in the day in illustrator, but not everytime...

Have any of you had similiar issue?

Martin Mach · Accepted Answer

So unfortunately, this is not the solution. I tried all Playback options several times.

But it led me to believe, that it happens only on the first instance of using given step of the action, when i start Illustrator.

So it could be maybe solved by using a script at the beggining of each Illustrator session, that would create random object, rotate and scale it (so the step is "used") and delete the object.

That way, when the action wants to do the step, it was already used and it should work.

Kurt Gold · Answer

Yes, this may happen sometimes for some unknown reason. You may check if enabling the Step by Step or Pause for Seconds option in the Playback Options does help.

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