In Illustrator, there is a very useful function Object > Expand which allow to use the eraser tool on a dashed line without shifting dashes everytime the line is cut.
I want to do the same job than the Expand function, but using javascript.
Is there a simple way to do that?
Or do you know how to separate each dash to a simple pathItem from the pathItem of the whole line?
if you're using CS6+, you can use:
app.executeMenuCommand('expandStyle');
app.executeMenuCommand('Expand3');
i played around a little bit trying to turn off the dialog box.. but i've never had much luck with that.
Another option is to simply create an action that performs "Expand Appearance" and "Expand". You can turn off the dialogs in the actions panel. then you can run the action from your javascript like so:
app.doScript('NameOfAction', 'NameOfSet');
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