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Script for place item in Illustrator?

Community Beginner ,
Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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I am trying to write a script for Illustrator that takes an image from a specific location on my computer and place it on my artboard.  This script should be pretty simple, but I can't seem to find an example of it anywhere?

Can anyone help?

Thanks!

Mat

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Community Beginner , Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

I found the answer to this:

if ( app.documents.length > 0) {

    doc = app.activeDocument;

var placedItem = doc.placedItems.add();

placedItem.file = new File("image.jpg");

}

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Dec 07, 2017 Dec 07, 2017

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If the image has always the same name, you could record an Action.

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I found the answer to this:

if ( app.documents.length > 0) {

    doc = app.activeDocument;

var placedItem = doc.placedItems.add();

placedItem.file = new File("image.jpg");

}

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