Scripts not Appearing Under "Scripts" in Menu

[cmalven]

I have been going crazy trying to get my custom scripts to appear in the "Scripts" menu item under "File" in Illustrator CS4. I've tried placing them in Presets > Scripts, I've tried creating a folder under "Plug-Ins" called "Scripts" and placing them there, and several other places in an attempt to find anything that will work, but so far nothing has. I've also tried deleting the Illustrator Prefs but that didn't help. Has anybody encountered this problem before?

[SairLeg]

In CS3 you put them in Preset -> Scripts..... but you MUST restart Illustrator after you've put the script there before it will appear on the menu

[Guest]

Hi, maybe the problem is in the name of your script because the list can only show a few scripts. Rename your script in the Preset>script folder so that it starts with a number (like 1_myscript) this should bring your script on the top of the list when you restart Illustrator. Let's see if this helps...

[Revelation_Now]

I have exactly the same problem.

For example, one of my scripts is called IA_tile_1.jsx.

Under my scripting menu I have:

ExportDocAsFlash

Flex Skins

LiveTrace

SaveDocAsPDF

SaveDocAsSVG

Other Script

After reading the comments here I tried coping it into C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Presets from C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Scripting, but this made no change.

The other thing I find confusing is Usually when I open a script it defaults to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Scripting. However sometimes it defaults to C:\Users\windowsdomainname\My Documents. As windows handles this as a library which is a top level windows container, not as a subdirectory of the directory c:\Users\windowsdomainname\ I can't just up two folders and start tracing my way back down the directory tree. I have to wait a while while all my network locations are enumaterated until I can finally select C:\, then navigate down from the root again. Thats kind of a gripe because, from the free scripts for Illustrator I have looked at, very few of them seem to genuinely save time for the user or even perform something that can't be easily done with more control via freehand. You would think with all of this stuffing around it would generally be quicker than just performing the job of the script by hand rather than trying to locate such a deeply nested folder than can't default consistently to the same folder. The only reason I'm perservering here is because Illustrator seems to lack a tool that I honestly thought was kind of the reason you would write a program like Illustrator: for the ability to array items and tile items like a grid. Maybe be able to specify by pixel the location of the object. Well, it turns out Illustrator can't be used like this at all unless you write a custom script to handle it, but then it seems to make you jump lots of hoops to get it to show up in the scripting menu or to get the "other scripts" to consistently default to the same folder.

So what causes that default script folder to change. Sometimes in a matter of seconds between consequtive runs on a script?

And how do we get our custom scripts to show up in the scripts menu so we don't have to click "Other Scripts" to begin with?

[Guest]

Hi Revelation_Now,

I think you should check the folder once more where you've saved your script.

It has to be inside Scripts-folder under Presets.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Presets\en_GB\Scripts

You know you're saving your script in the right folder when you see the other default scripts there inside the folder.

And then you have to restart Illustrator.

( This Scripting-folder is only for documentation.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Scripting )