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MacRaz65
MacRaz65
Participant
August 1, 2011
Pregunta

Disable screen updating?

  • August 1, 2011
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Can anyone tell me if it is possible to disable screen updating in illustrator

whilst running a script and if so how?

I have developed some scripts to create artwork in Illustrator but I would like to speed them up and presumably avoiding having to watch it happen on the screen would help this.

Thanks

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Muppet Mark
Inspiring
August 1, 2011

You don't say what language but in short the answer is no…

MacRaz65
MacRaz65Autor
Participant
August 1, 2011

Thanks. So is the long answer also no? If I'm not mistaken I think it is possible in InDesign. Did the Adobe people just forget to add it to illustrator?

I'm actually scripting in VBA. I call Illustrator with VBA from within Excel. I can freeze screenupdating while in Excel but when I call Illustrator it switches the focus to Illustrator. Any ideas how I could freeze the whole lot until the script has finished?

Thanks

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osato_reg
Known Participant
January 11, 2014

You could zoom up so that you don't see as much on the screen.

If you wanted to zoom up to 2000%, you could write something like

appRef.ActiveDocument.ActiveView.Zoom = 20.0

You can also make the Illustrator window smaller at runtime to see even less.

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