Fill of compound path item

[dean70719652]

Is it me or does Illustrator 2020 no longer allow you to get the fill of path item 1 of compound path items? Path Items used to show up inside Compound Path Items

[Kurt Gold]

Can you show a screenshot that may explain what you mean?

[femkeblanco]

You can access the fillColor of any of the pathItems in a compoundPathItem, e.g.

var paths = app.activeDocument.compoundPathItems[0].pathItems;
var c1 = paths[0].fillColor;
alert( c1.typename + ", C: " + c1.cyan + ", M: " + c1.magenta + ", Y: " + c1.yellow );

But the fillColor has but few properties to access, i.e. typename and the values of the components (CMYK or RGB). 

[CarlosCanto]

it's you, that still works in 2020

[dean70719652]

Im not sure why but if I have a compound path made of several paths not overlapping, no path items can be seen contained by the compound path item in applescript/javascript. If I take a letter or number like A or 0 and expand into compound path, it shows path items inside of the compound path item.

[Silly-V · Accepted solution]

There could be a small chance that you may have one of the buggy groups inside a compound path, so there's actually not a single pathItem - until you de-compound it and un-group it. Some external software may produce such a faulty compound path structure when art from those apps is imported into Illustrator.

[dean70719652]

Hey Silly-V! Its crazy I dont know if I just never noticed this was inconsistent or if its a change. Ive never had issues drilling down into compound path items to find a fill.

[dean70719652]

Crazy, I relesed and remade and it worked correctly. The paths were generated by a font expanded in illustrator 2020. Seems insane to run on error release compound path then re-make but its better then nothing.

[Silly-V]

And now thanks to you, we are more knowledgeable as to why this occurs: in this case we can add the entire realm of fonts to the list of suspects!