/t5/illustrator-discussions/scripting-for-quot-output-fewer-lt-tspan-gt-elements-quot-svg/td-p/1161378Nov 25, 2008
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I don't seem to be finding documentation for support of all available SVG options in the scripting guide (CS3). Specifically I want to set "fewer tspan elements" to "true" as in checking the box on the SVG options dialog. Is this possible?
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Many of the things available in the UI are not able to be scripted. I don't see it in the list of export options. You may have to venture into doing by system calls.
/t5/illustrator-discussions/scripting-for-quot-output-fewer-lt-tspan-gt-elements-quot-svg/m-p/1161380#M238264Dec 01, 2008
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The "output fewer elements" suppresses AI CS3's kerning behavior. Therefore, the key is to adjust the kerning output controls.
If I understand the AI CS3 scripting guide and javascript reference documents correctly, sVGAutoKerning is by default set to "false", and therefore disables automatic kerning.
The quirky part of this is that, when we manually use 'Save As' to generate an svg file, the "fewer tspan elements" checkbox is not defaulted to checked ("true").
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