Get the art item associated with a page item

[Bernie5CFE]

According to the documentation - "The PageItem class gives yo complete access to every art item contained in an Illustrator document." Unfortunately I cannot figure out how the art item is connected to the PageItem.

My particular case is that I want to change the contents of a textFrame. I would like to use the UUID of the pageItem to locate the textFrame. Something like this:

var pageItem = app.activeDocument.getPageItemFromUuid(uuid)
//now I want to get the textFrame so I would like to do something like this:
var textFrame = textFrame.getFromPageItem(pageItem)
textFrame.contents = "Updated value"

Any ideas would be appreciated!

[Bernie5CFE · Accepted solution]

I think I figured this out. It appears that you can simply treat the pageItem like the associated art item. So the solution would be:

var pageItem = app.activeDocument.getPageItemFromUuid(uuid)
//pageItem now acts like a textFrame so we can use the textFrame properties on it
pageItem.contents = "Updated value"

[CarlosCanto]

pageItem and art item refer to the same thing.

getFromPageItem() is not a function, at least not in illustrator api

in your last example, you're not providing the item uuid, so your snippet shouldn't work as provided.

[Bernie5CFE]

Thanks!

Not sure why you are mentioning getFromPageItem(). I don't use that in my examples. getPageItemFromUUID was added in CC 24 (https://illustrator-scripting-guide.readthedocs.io/introduction/changelog/)

[CarlosCanto]

sorry, I thought I saw it, I guess my eyes played a trick on me.

[CarlosCanto]

oh well, at least I know I'm not crazy.