Save .ai file as .svg without save as prompt

[patilpralhad]

Hi All,

I have a scenario where I want to save .ai document as .svg silently(without save as dialog) in the background. I'm using following code to do this. But it is giving save as dialog.

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetStringUS(paramValue, kAIExportDocumentNameKey,ai::UnicodeString("test.svg"));

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetString(paramValue, kAIExportDocumentExtensionKey,kAISVGFileFormatExtension);

  sAIActionManager->PlayActionEvent(kAIExportDocumentAction,kDialogOff,paramValue);

Is there anything I'm doing wrong?

If anyone knows how to do this kindly post code snippet or technique on how to do it.

Thank you for your help

[dnyaneshlb]

I have this snippet do exact thing you want. Though it uses extend-script and not c++.

This does not give you save as dialogue.

// Exports current document to dest as an SVG file with specified
// options, dest contains the full path including the file name
function exportFileToSVG (dest) {
if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) {
var exportOptions = new ExportOptionsSVG();
var type = ExportType.SVG;
var fileSpec = new File(dest);
exportOptions.embedRasterImages = true;
exportOptions.embedAllFonts = false;
exportOptions.fontSubsetting = SVGFontSubsetting.GLYPHSUSED;
app.activeDocument.exportFile( fileSpec, type, exportOptions );
}
}

I hope this helps.

[Toto RoToTO]

This few methods should help! Using Value parameter block (VPB) - a container for action parameters.

@see AIActionManagerSuite

void ActionHelper::VPB::SetSaveDocumentAsName(const ai::FilePath& name)

{

    SDK_ASSERT(sAIActionManager);

    ASErr result = sAIActionManager->AIActionSetStringUS(this->fActionParamValueRef, kAISaveDocumentAsNameKey,    name.GetFullPath());

    aisdk::check_ai_error(result);

}

void ActionHelper::VPB::SetSaveDocumentAsGetParams(ASBoolean getParams)

{   

    ASErr result = sAIActionManager->AIActionSetBoolean(this->fActionParamValueRef, kAISaveDocumentAsGetParamsKey, getParams);

    aisdk::check_ai_error(result);

}

ASErr ActionHelper::SaveDocumentAs(const ai::UnicodeString& name, DocumentActionHelper::VPB& vpb)

{

    ASErr result = kNoErr;

    try {

        ai::FilePath path(name);       

        vpb.SetSaveDocumentAsName(path);

        // Enable dialogs parameter.       

        vpb.SetSaveDocumentAsGetParams(false);

        ActionDialogStatus dialogStatus = name.empty() ? kDialogOn : kDialogOff;       

        result = this->SaveDocumentAs(dialogStatus, vpb);

        aisdk::check_ai_error(result);

    }

    catch (ai::Error& ex) {

        result = ex;

    }   

    return result;

}

ASErr ActionHelper::SaveDocumentAs(ActionDialogStatus dialogStatus, AIActionParamValueRef parameters)

{

    ASErr result = kNoErr;

    try

    {

        SDK_ASSERT(sAIActionManager);

        result = sAIActionManager->PlayActionEvent(kAISaveDocumentAsAction, dialogStatus, parameters);

        aisdk::check_ai_error(result);

    }

    catch (ai::Error& ex)

    {

        result = ex;

    }   

    return result;

}

[Toto RoToTO · Accepted solution]

the path you want to save your file is not correctly formatted, I guess. That is why dialogbox is shown.

Try to fix this first!

[patilpralhad]

So here is code snippet to do this. I had to do export file instead of save as.

  AIActionParamValueRef paramValueRef = NULL;

  sAIActionManager->AINewActionParamValue(&paramValueRef);

  ai::UnicodeString name = ai::UnicodeString("C:\\Users\\mypc\\Desktop\\test\\testfile.svg");

  ai::FilePath path(name);

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetStringUS(paramValueRef, kAIExportDocumentNameKey,path.GetFullPath());

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetString(paramValueRef, kAIExportDocumentFormatKey, kAISVGFileFormat);

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetString(paramValueRef, kAIExportDocumentExtensionKey, kAISVGFileFormatExtension);

  sAIActionManager->AIActionSetBoolean(paramValueRef, kAIExportDocumentSaveMultipleArtboardsKey, false);

  sAIActionManager->PlayActionEvent(kAIExportDocumentAction,  kDialogOff,  paramValueRef);