Convert PlacedItem...

[clutch-cargo]

trying to script in vbscript PlacedItem() below is a JavaScript example which does work nicely but I need to convert to vbscript.

var file = File('C:\SOCAL\Section_32\Masks\SOCAL_Section_32_vegmask.tif');

var idoc = app.activeDocument;

var iplaced = idoc.placedItems.add();

iplaced.file = file;

When I try to adapt to vbscript I use:

Set App = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim VegMask, myDoc, myPlacedItem

VegMask = "C:\SOCAL\Section_32\Masks\SOCAL_Section_32_vegmask.tif"

myDoc = App.ActiveDocument

myPlacedItem = myDoc.placedItems.Add()

myPlacedItem.file VegMask

However when I run it I get an error "invalid character" referring to the last line.  Tried several iterations with no luck. Can anyone see where I am going wrong on my conversion?  THx!

[Ten A]

I'm not Windows user. So below  dosn't tested.

myPlacedItem.File = VegMask

Plobably, need to "=" between property and strings.

[clutch-cargo]

Thx for the reply.  Yea I've tried:

myPlacedItem.file = VegMask

myPlacedItem.file(VegMask)

myPlacedItem.file.VegMask

myPlacedItem.file VegMask

Same error message so I suspect that even though the error refers to that line it may not be that line at all.

[clutch-cargo · Accepted solution]

Yes! Got it...

Dim VegMask, myDoc, myPlacedItem

VegMask = "C:\SOCAL\Section_32\Masks\SOCAL_Section_32_vegmask.tif"

Set myDoc = App.ActiveDocument

myDoc.PlacedItems.Add().File = VegMask

[Ten A]

VBs property must be starts upper case...