Maria_prabhudoss

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How to apply the Convert to Grayscale?

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
June 17, 2009
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Hi all,

I need to convert all the objects & text as Grayscale through Scripting. And also is it possible to apply the Convert to Grayscale(Edit->Edit Colors->Convert to Grayscale) for the selected items in illustrator cs3. Kindly advice me the possiblities.

Thanks for looking into this.

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Hanaan Rosenthal

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Hi - Unfortunately, this is not possible through straight scripting.

The only option I'm aware of is using actions and calling them from a script.

1. Record an action that changes the selection to grayscale

2. Use AppleScript to select all

3. Use the do script command in AppleScript (or javascript...) to run the action.

I used this successfully.

Hope that helps.

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

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Look at the GrayColor in the JS Scripting reference. Probably as close as you can get.

Maria_prabhudossAuthor

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Thanks Larry.