Is there a property to handle font favorites in illustrator script ?

[raldrald]

Hi, all

Is there a property to handle font favorites in illustrator script ?

I want to write a script that stores the selected favorite fonts in an array and

creates a new text frame for a specific letter with the favorite fonts list .

Is that possible?

[sttk3]

Favorite fonts are stored in preferences and can be retrieved from there. But unfortunately, it seems the info is only updated when Illustrator is restarted.

/**
  * @File Get favorite families on Illustrator
  * @Version 1.0.0
  * @author sttk3.com
*/

(function() {
  var pref = app.preferences ;
  var favoriteFamilyNames = [] ;
  var favoriteFamilyCount = pref.getIntegerPreference('plugin/FavoriteFamily/FavoriteFamilyCount') ;
  for(var i = 0 ; i < favoriteFamilyCount ; i++) {
    var favoriteFamilyName = pref.getStringPreference('plugin/FavoriteFamily/' + i + '/Name') ;
    favoriteFamilyNames.push(favoriteFamilyName) ;
  }

  alert(favoriteFamilyNames.join('\n')) ;
})() ;

[raldrald]

Thank you so much @sttk3 !

I'm really amazed that it's possible.

Could you help me more by modifying lists in a new textFrame instead of an alert statement?

var t = doc.textFrames.add();

t.contents = favoriteFamilyNames.join('\n');

I added this instead of alert, but it doesn't work. How can I fix it?

And one more question, please.

Is it possible to save and retrieve several favorites lists separately?

Like grep queries in InDesign.

[sttk3]

Not tried it, but it seems not to work because the doc is not defined. Let's add it.

var doc = app.documents[0] ;

> Is it possible to save and retrieve several favorites lists separately?

This probably means you want to save and load them as presets; it might be possible to rewrite the preferences with setStringPreference, but it will only be applied when Illustrator is restarted. I guess this is unsatisfactory as a feature.

[raldrald]

Thanks so much @sttk3 

It works!

I forgot that statement as you said.😅

I'm a newbie to illustrator script, so

I searched the forums and found the path to preferences.

~/Library/Preferences/

In that folder, I found

- Adobe Illustrator 25 Settings

- Adobe Illustrator 26 Settings

- Adobe Illustrator 27 Settings

I also found this in that Adobe Illustrator 27 Settings/en_GB folder.

- Adobe Illustrator Prefs

But I don't know how to save and load settings.

var variable =  pref.setStringPreference(key, value);

How should I write key and value?

Could you help me more please? 🥲

[sttk3]

Could you try to write it yourself once and show us the code here?