Public/Private Coordinate System

[Toto RoToTO]

Most functions in the SDK use the public system of page coordinates, but some use the internal artboard coordinates.

Is there a list of list of functions using private system?


Thx.
thomas

[A. Patterson]

There isn't a master list I don't think, you just have to check the method documentation. If it doesn't say, just assume it's the usual 'public' (or more accurately, 'soft') system. Methods that use the 'hard' system are usually pretty clear about using it in their function docs. There aren't many of them either.

[Toto RoToTO]

this would it be easier for me if it was clearly defined in each header files!

for instance, transform matrix of pattern art is exprimed in private coordinate system, whereas the path' points, containing this pattern, will be exprimed in public system. but not its bouding box.

In my plugin, pattern color could be export as an imagebrush. Pattern art is rasterized. this imagebrush has a reference on this raster image. I am trying to set a viewport on my imagebrush , and use a transformation matrix to place this image correctly in the path, but i've always got an offset Tx, Ty).

I'am pretty sure illustrator used viewport for managing this internal stuff, but we can't retrieveit via sdk. :(

Adding the private/public coordinate sytem, it's tricky! :)