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Flowgun
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November 25, 2025
Question

Javascript commands for path finder operations?

  • November 25, 2025
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Hello,
there's already this oldish post about it:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/looking-for-javascript-commands-for-path-finder-operation/td-p/12355960
For a long time, I had these operations saved as actions, but I'm looking for ways to write my actions into scripts so that I can have them all running from single scripts with minimal config time.
Is there a solution to this yet? pathfinder effects are not similar to the operations found in the pathfinder panel: e.g: if we're trying subtract on a shape that has 2 strokes, it would work from the panel, but I found no way to make it work in that case with pathfinder from the effect panel.

I know that I can make a script that writes a file to disk and then uploads actions into illustrator and launches the wanted action, but is there any simpler way?

2 replies

Legend
January 25, 2026

As far as I know, exactly as you pointed out, writing a file to disk and then uploading actions into Illustrator and launching the desired action is the simplest approach.

creative explorer
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 25, 2026

@Flowgun You may want to consider a Reddit / Discord Illustrator Developers — seems nobody knows

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