ActiveX component can't creata object: 'Illustrator.Application' Illustrator CC 2019 23.0.6

[Curtis Keiderling]

We recently upgraded to CC 2019, and now vbscript is unable to access illustrator.

Scripts fail with the following error:  ActiveX component can't creata object: 'Illustrator.Application'

on first line.. Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

This automation ability is an important part of our workflow, so it is important to us to get this fixed.

Has anyone else experienced/ solved this error?

[jeffa85323848]

I recently upgraded to CC 2020, and now vbscript is unable to access illustrator.

Error message: ActiveX component can't create object 'Illustrator.Application''.

I did try this:  Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.CC.2020"),  but this also crashed.

Error message:  ActiveX component can't create object 'Illustrator.Application.CC.2020''.

Does anyone has a workaround for this? Thanks in advance.

[Curtis Keiderling]

Hey, juno88,

The way i solved the same problem in 2019 was as follows:

Open regedit.exe on your computer, and find the reference to the illustrator type library, just by scrolling through all the classes under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.  You are looking for something similar to Illustrator.Application.[someothertext].

Then in your vba, refer to that name instead of 'illustrator.application.cc.2020'.

For example, photoshop 2019 type library is listed in the registry as 'Photoshop.Application.130'.

When i createobject with that text, everything works fine.

Hopefully that helps...

cjk

[jeffa85323848]

Hi cjk,

I found this in regedit, Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Illustrator.Application.24\Default - with the value 'Illustrator Application'.  That's what my orig. vbscript has - CreateObject("Illustrator.Application") but it didn't work.

[Curtis Keiderling]

Try CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.24")

[jeffa85323848]

OMG, you're a genius. It WORKS  w/ CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.24"). Thank you so much.

[Curtis Keiderling]

Yeah, i was pretty pumped when i figured that out.  Adobe REALLY needs to clean this kind of thing up though.

Absolutely no documentation about this at all.

[jeffa85323848]

Right, there is no documentation for Illustrator 2019 and now 2020 is released. They probably short of technical writers 🙂  Thanks again cjk.

https://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator/scripting.html

[nishanthinis852599]

Hi All,

 I'm using Adobe CS6 version. 

Error message: ActiveX component can't create object 'Illustrator.Application''.

I have tried  CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.16")/  CreateObject("Illustrator.Application.CS6") as well. Nothing works. 

Has anyone else experienced/ solved this error?

[Curtis Keiderling]

Hey,

Go ahead and look in your registry under Computer\HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\

and look for an entry like Illustrator.Application.##.  

Then use the name of that entry, and your code should run.

[stephane-Urzhiataer]

great, thank you, you solve my problem

The question now is? why there are .number after sometime, or not, depending on the computer (on 3 computers, jute one have this issue with terminal number in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT)