Illustrator doesn't understand command 'apply character styles' in AppleScript after update

[Markfusco]

Hello -

After updating Illustrator a few minutes ago, this Applescipt command, which always worked before:

apply character style character style "BPTFormatBOLD" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps" to text range of text frame "C1TXT" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps"

returns this error message:

error "Adobe Illustrator got an error: character style \"BPTFormatBOLD\" of document \"12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps\" doesn’t understand the “apply character style” message." number -1708 from character style "BPTFormatBOLD" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps"

Script fails. My work depends heavily on this as I NEED Applescript to apply character styles! I have hundreds of them!

Thank you for your help.

[Silly-V]

I have not used my Mac in a while, but could it be there is a new type dictionary which needs to be activated?

[CarlosCanto]

it might be time to switch to Javascript, in the meantime if that's the only command that's not working, perhaps you could run a one line of javascript to take of the problem. It should be possible since it's visual basic can run javascript and applescript usually has similar capabilities.

[hhas01]

Works here:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" -- 2021
  tell document 1
    apply character style character style "Test" to text range of text frame 1
  end tell
end tell

[hhas01]

One thing: check the style names used in your script exactly match the style names in the AI document. AI can be a bit persnickety about differences in case.

[José Benitez]

Hi Markfusco,

same problem here... did you found a solution?

Thx in advance.

José

[Markfusco]

Hi -

The only solution was to uninstall and reinstall Version 25.0. All commands working again as usual.

[José Benitez]

Thanks Markfusco,

I understood that afetr trying another hour in fix the scripts thinking that the commands were changed.

Just curiosity, how do you reninstalled the previous version?

I did a restore of the whole system from Time Machine, but I didn't been so lucky, I got some problems whit it and the Mac OS has been reinstalled from scratch and the rest recovered from TM. I spent 2 days to come back to my setup 😞

Anyway many thanks for the answer.

Ciao!

[José Benitez]

Hi... pls ignore my question... understood a while ago that adobe added the chance to downgrade via CC app...

If I thought to give a check before 😄

All the best!

José

[Ashutosh_Mishra · Accepted solution]

Hi All,

Apologies for the delayed response. This issue has been fixed in upcoming release. You may also use the beta build 25.2 as suggested in this Illustrator UserVoice post(https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42411133--apple...).

Hope it helps.

Regards,

Ashutosh

[Markfusco]

Hello -

Further to my earlier post about 'apply character styles' producing an error message in the newest update of Illustrator, now 'rotate' and embed' are doing the same. This is killing my workflow! Does anyone have any idea if this can be fixed?

Thank you!