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CarlosCanto
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May 10, 2012
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Changes in CS6

  • May 10, 2012
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OMG! the CS6 DOM additions are _________. (fill in the blanks).

2 Enumerations

- Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR16

- ExportType.TIFF

2 Methods

- PlacedItem.relink()

- Application.sendScriptMessage()

1 Data Class

- ExportOptionsTIFF

(According to the CS6 SCRIPTING REFERENCE)

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Inspiring
May 11, 2012

That's not all!


From the OMV I have found 3 Application methods. I don't know why they're not listed in the REFERENCE. Here it is:

Application.doScript (action: string , from: string , dialogs: Boolean )
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library
Play an action from the Actions Palette.
action
: Data Type: string
The name of the action to play (note that the case of letters in the Action name is important and must match the case of the name in the Actions palette)
from: Data Type: string
The name of the action set containing the action being played (note that the case of letters in the Action Set name is important and must match the case of the name in the Actions palette)
dialogs
(optional): Data Type: Boolean , Default Value: true
Are dialog boxes associated with the action to be presented?

Application.executeMenuCommand (menuCommandString: string )
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library
Executes a menu command using the menu shortcut string.
menuCommandString
: Data Type: string
Menu command shortcut.

Application.dumpPGFFile (file: File , documentColorSpace: DocumentColorSpace , pGFFile: File ): Boolean
Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library
Dump the PGF portion of ai file to txt file.
file
: Data Type: File
The AI file to be opened.
documentColorSpace
(optional): Data Type: DocumentColorSpace
Choose color space only for documents saved with multiple color models (pre-Illustrator 9)
pGFFile
: Data Type: File
Folder to save the output PGF file.


And here are some example:

var f = File.openDialog ('', '*.ai', 0);

app.dumpPGFFile(f, undefined, f.parent);


app.executeMenuCommand('Live Adobe Drop Shadow');


Also see this gist: https://gist.github.com/2568405



CarlosCanto
Community Expert
May 11, 2012

thanks for the info Moluapple, those first two methods are promising findings...and great script in the link...which I have a question,

what is this? another Method?

app.loadAction(f);

Inspiring
May 11, 2012

O, yes, there are much more:

Application.loadAction (actionFilePath: File )

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library

Load an action into action palette.

actionFilePath: Data Type: File

The path on the system of the action file to be loaded.

Application.unloadAction (setName: string , actionName: string )

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library

Unloads an action into action palette.

setName: Data Type: string

Name of the set to be unloaded.

actionName: Data Type: string

Name of the action to be unloaded.

And the sad part is: you can load actionSet, but can only unload action within actionSet, not the actionSet itself.

Again, maybe not so useful:

Application.reflectCSAW (outputFolder:File)

Adobe Illustrator CS6 Type Library

Generate Creative Suite ActionScript Wrappers in specified directory.

outputFolder: Data Type: File

Location for the output files.

Inspiring
May 10, 2012

Carlos, can you save that as PDF. It would save me popping down the devcentre…

Compatability should be not too dificult too…

CarlosCanto
Community Expert
May 10, 2012
Larry G. Schneider
Community Expert
May 10, 2012

Carlos, I wanted your version… As above no need for the rest…

Larry, as you can see for your self IZW has a better compression algorithm than LZW but only for the first third…


Good one!!