How to edit the "default" image trace in Illustrator 2024

[ponas]

I have been trying to change the default image trace option, as I would like to create a script that utilizes image tracing how do I do this? 

[ponas · Accepted solution]

I wanted to ignore the color white for all the image traces. This is how I have accomplished this: 

1) Create a custom image trace preset that ignores the white color and save the preset. This will create a "Vectorizng Presets" file that we will edit. 

2) I am on Windows, so I went to C:\Users\********\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 29 Settings\en_US\x64 and opened the file "Vectorizing Presets" using my notepad. The first preset is the one you have created. the default collection is named as "/collection7 {"

3) I added this to the bottom of the atrributes and saved it.:

		/adobe.vectorize.output.shouldIgnoreColors 1
		/adobe.vectorize.output.ignoreColors [ 18
			363535333520363535333520363535333520
		]
		/adobe.vectorize.output.alphaEnabledUI 0
		/adobe.vectorize.in.fitliveshapes 0