Script for rasterize effect at text/ rectangle in illsutrator

Hi rikoc40685425, thanks to heaps of help from Silly-V and Carlos, I've just been introduced to the applyEffect method and I've put together a quick script that might do what you need. Let me know if it works for you. - Mark

// select an object and this will apply the rasterize live effect

var dpi = 30;
var antialiasing = false;
var typeOptimizedAntialiasing = false; // if false, will use 'art optimized'
var transparentBackground = true;
var paddingAroundInPts = 0;
var colrIndex = 1;  // 0 = RGB, 1 = CMYK, 2 = Grayscale, 3 = Bitmap
var clipMask = false;

var rasterizeXML = '<LiveEffect name="Adobe Rasterize"><Dict data="I colr #colr# B alis #alis# I dpi. #dpi# B mask #mask# R padd #padd# I optn #optn# "/></LiveEffect>';

rasterizeXML = rasterizeXML
    .replace(/#colr#/, colrIndex + (transparentBackground ? 4 : 0))
    .replace(/#alis#/, antialiasing ? 1 : 0)
    .replace(/#dpi#/, Math.round(dpi))
    .replace(/#mask#/, clipMask ? 1 : 0)
    .replace(/#padd#/, paddingAroundInPts)
    .replace(/#optn#/, typeOptimizedAntialiasing ? 16 : 0);

var item = app.activeDocument.selection[0];
item.applyEffect(rasterizeXML);

Edit: added other colour models.

hi Mark, the problem is your variable name, it should not resemble reserved words (object name in this case)

do

var path2 instead

The Rasterize effect is a very powerful Illustrator feature indeed. You could save a graphic style featuring this effect and easily apply it via script, but that requires some document to be saved in a pre-determined place which has that graphic style inside applied to some shape you can copy and paste between documents so as to bring in the graphic style.
Otherwise, please take a look at this thread which elucidates some on the Apply Effect XML scripting method that can add live effects to things: https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator/pageitem-applyeffect-liveeffectxml/m-p/7315221?page=1

If you perform experimentations with the live effect XML, we would like to know your findings so please post them here if you go that route!