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• Transparency mask not taken into account when using PathItem.translate()???

Hello -

I won't explain all the "process" or the reason why I'm using a script for this, but…

I made a script to moving a manually saved selection via "PathItem.translate()".

Until now, I though that everything works like a charm.

Until a colleague of mine told me that "transparency mask" where not moved! Even they where part of the selection.

If I do the operation manually (ie. moving the selection), everything is moving.

When I do it via scripting, well looks like the transparency masks are leaved on their original location. all the rest is moved.

NB. Of course they linked, not "locked", …

The line of code:

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pgItem.translate( 50, 0 );
…

Any idea why?

Thank you,

- Dimitri

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Community Expert

unfortunately all of the old threads didn't make it to the new forum format. Let me alert employees to try to get it back.

Community Expert

Yes, that will be great for future reference too and new comers to the forums.

Thanks

Best regards

Community Expert

that's a known issue, check this thread for a solution

Inspiring

Hey Carlos -

Thank you for your answer.

W0W now that's a piece of code just to be able to move an "opacity/transparency mask" :-0

Do I really have to embed all this code to "force" Illustrator to take into account a small opacity/transparency mask (when I'm scripting)?

Thank you for your upcoming feedback.

Regards,

- Dimitri

Community Expert

the short answer is yes, you have to use all those lines of code to move small or big opacity masked objects.

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