Apply Dropshadow Live Effect

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May 6, 2018
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Hi All

I am trying to apply a drop shadow live effect.

The post is very helpful PageItem.applyEffect(LiveEffectXML)

The fxg string I get is

<ai:LiveEffect index="0" major="1" minor="0" name="Adobe Drop Shadow">
  <ai:Dict data="B pair 1 R opac 1 R dark 100 R horz 7 R blur 0 I csrc 0 I blnd 0 R vert 7 B usePSLBlur 1 I Adobe Effect Expand Before Version 16 ">
    <ai:Entry name="sclr" valueType="F">
      <ai:Fill color="1 0.75 0.68 0.67 0.902"/>
    </ai:Entry>
  </ai:Dict>
</ai:LiveEffect>

I am stuck how to convert this into the LiveEffectXML string

The effects demonstrated in the above post and the links found on it don't have the extra <ai:Entry> tag, I don't know what to do with it.

I'm also confused by the last bit

I Adobe Effect Expand Before Version 16 "

I would think all the spaces between the words is going to cause trouble also I don't know why there's a space after the integer 16 ?

Has anyone figured this out?

Regards

Trevor

Scripting

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Correct answer m1b

Update: these free functions make applying Live Effects easier: AI Live Effect Functions.

- Mark

m1b

Correct answer

Community Expert

Update: these free functions make applying Live Effects easier: AI Live Effect Functions.

- Mark

Trevor:Author

Legend

P.s. I tried to record an action of applying a drop shadow but that didn't work either

I can't use graphics styles as the wouldn't exists

pixxxelschubser

Community Expert

Hi Trevorׅ

based on the findings of Silly-V and CarlosCanto the code should be

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var ipath = idoc.selection[0];
xmlstring = '<LiveEffect name="Adobe Drop Shadow"><Dict data="R vert 7 R opac 0.75 B pair 1 R dark 100 R horz 14.655 R blur 5 I blnd 1 I csrc 0 "/></LiveEffect>';
ipath.applyEffect(xmlstring);

Have fun with testing