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Anonymous
January 5, 2010
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applescript: transferring total appearance from one page item to another

  • January 5, 2010
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What is the best way to transfer all the properties of a path item that determine appearance to another path item?

What if those path items are in separate documents?

Should I copy and paste?

what about:

set item_properties to every property of page item 1 of document 2

set properties of page item 5 of current document to item_properties

????

Specifically, I want to copy the following properties from one path item to another, across documents:

stroked

stroke width

stroke color

stroke dashes

stroke cap

filled

fill color

--and any patterns that are used as fill

blend mode

opacity

any help appreciated.

thanks.

Ben

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Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
Inspiring
January 5, 2010

In cases like this I would be using graphic styles… You could record all these to variables then add to the other doc's path but if it were a graphic style then you could C&P or duplicate an object with the applied style (this will bring over every thing used by it) remove object then apply style to required items. Less work that way.

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Anonymous
January 5, 2010

Thanks Mark.

the main downside to this is it adds another layer of manual work--you would have to make a graphic style by hand from each sample object (because you can't make a new graphic style with a script). I would rather make the script do the work, so that if I have a lot of different sample items to mimic it could be automated.

The big problem I've encountered with just moving each property over is that when I make my own fill pattern for the sample object, and copy that pattern over as a "fill color", it seems to cause some problem with opening the document, as I found in this other discussion:

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/542632?tstart=0

Thanks again,

Ben

Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
Muppet_Mark-QAl63s
Inspiring
January 6, 2010

I have sample scripts that I use for moving just about anything from one document to another. That said the one that always gave me the most problems was 'patterns' and I don't know why!!! It appeared to work just like the rest but quite often would result in an out of memory issue then crash (even with the simplest of pattern swatches). I will see if I have a copy of this at home (Im snowed in today)

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