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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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Carlos, can you save that as PDF. It would save me popping down the devcentre…
Compatability should be not too dificult too…
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yes you can, Tools Guide is not ready yet I guess.
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator.html
or straight from here
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Finally the ability to Export directly to a Tiff file. Do the options include Transparency?
Just downloaded the reference file and no Transparency for Tiff. Also what is IZW compression? Has it taken the place of LZW?
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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…
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Good one!!
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All joking apart… This is NOT good news for an app that has serious ground to make up… I bet PS & ID are making further leaps forward…
It's no wonder there are no links at the side of this forum… Nothing has changed…
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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
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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);
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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.
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thanks, it might come handy, thanks for sharing....you almost convinced me to give CS6 a try
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Moluapple, thanks for those… They look like some of the bigger wishes too… Evoking menus and actions opens access right up…
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The app.doScript has always been there for AppleScript and VisualBasic just not for JS. Looking over the JS reference it's still not listed.
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Are you looking in the docs or the OMV Larry? Actions and menu items would be a hugh break through IMO… A pitty no events… Hum do I get the trial to have rummage…?
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I'm guessing we'd have to download the trial to get the new OMV and to test it.
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Yeah you would need the install to be able to browse the info… Jong may well be very good and do a CHM at some point… I use these for versions I don't have installs for… There are some things that aren't in the OMV or docs ( not many ) and some things where they differ… I like to make use of everything…