[Q] Is the Grid and Gridline Every setting in Illustrator scriptable?

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September 23, 2023
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I can't find anything on how to script the Illustrator's grid in JavaScript. In particular I am looking for the GridLine Every setting, as in the Preferences dialogue box:

Any help greatly appreciated,

Tom

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Correct answer tomd75724979

Hi Kurt,

I'm so happy - and I hope you are too - to tell you that you're wrong 🙂

I found this and it works. cm2pts is just my conversion constant for converting centimeters to points.

app.preferences.setRealPreference('Grid/Horizontal/Spacing', 0.9*cm2pts)

$.writeln("Spacing: " + app.preferences.getRealPreference('Grid/Horizontal/Spacing'));

app.preferences.setRealPreference('Grid/Vertical/Spacing', 0.9*cm2pts)

$.writeln("Spacing: " + app.preferences.getRealPreference('Grid/Horizontal/Spacing'));

app.preferences.setIntegerPreference('Grid/Horizontal/Ticks', 1);

app.preferences.setIntegerPreference('Grid/Vertical/Ticks', 1);

$.writeln("Hor ticks: " + app.preferences.getIntegerPreference('Grid/Horizontal/Ticks'));

$.writeln("Vert ticks: " + app.preferences.getIntegerPreference('Grid/Vertical/Ticks'));

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

As far as I know this setting is currently not accessible to JavaScript.

Hopefully I'm wrong here.

T

tomd75724979AuthorCorrect answer