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Can someone provide a link to a reference guide or something for selectTool() method in Illustrator JS?
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there's no official reference, here's a list of Tool names posted by community user andrewh
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If you look at the .kys file of the keyboard shortcut, you will see the arguments to be passed.
For example, the Direct Select Tool is "Adobe Direct Select Tool" without the backslash "\" from the following notation.
/Adobe\ Direct\ Select\ Tool {
/Context 0
/Modifiers 0
/Represent 65
/Key 65
}
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