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Illustrator doesn't understand command 'apply character styles' in AppleScript after update

Community Beginner ,
Jan 09, 2021 Jan 09, 2021

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Hello -

After updating Illustrator a few minutes ago, this Applescipt command, which always worked before:

 

apply character style character style "BPTFormatBOLD" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps" to text range of text frame "C1TXT" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps"

 

returns this error message:

 

error "Adobe Illustrator got an error: character style \"BPTFormatBOLD\" of document \"12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps\" doesn’t understand the “apply character style” message." number -1708 from character style "BPTFormatBOLD" of document "12 Cities Tides Table Template.eps"

 

Script fails. My work depends heavily on this as I NEED Applescript to apply character styles! I have hundreds of them!

 

Thank you for your help.

 

 

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LEGEND , Feb 03, 2021 Feb 03, 2021

Hi All,

 

Apologies for the delayed response. This issue has been fixed in upcoming release. You may also use the beta build 25.2 as suggested in this Illustrator UserVoice post(https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42411133--applescript-do-javascript-command-no-longer-work).

Hope it helps.

 

Regards,

Ashutosh

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Valorous Hero ,
Jan 09, 2021 Jan 09, 2021

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I have not used my Mac in a while, but could it be there is a new type dictionary which needs to be activated?

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Community Expert ,
Jan 10, 2021 Jan 10, 2021

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it might be time to switch to Javascript, in the meantime if that's the only command that's not working, perhaps you could run a one line of javascript to take of the problem. It should be possible since it's visual basic can run javascript and applescript usually has similar capabilities.

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Engaged ,
Jan 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021

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Works here:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" -- 2021
  tell document 1
    apply character style character style "Test" to text range of text frame 1
  end tell
end tell

 

 

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Engaged ,
Jan 11, 2021 Jan 11, 2021

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One thing: check the style names used in your script exactly match the style names in the AI document. AI can be a bit persnickety about differences in case.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 16, 2021 Jan 16, 2021

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Hi Markfusco,

same problem here... did you found a solution?

Thx in advance.

 

José

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 17, 2021 Jan 17, 2021

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Hi -

 

The only solution was to uninstall and reinstall Version 25.0. All commands working again as usual.

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 17, 2021 Jan 17, 2021

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Thanks Markfusco,

I understood that afetr trying another hour in fix the scripts thinking that the commands were changed.

 

Just curiosity, how do you reninstalled the previous version?

I did a restore of the whole system from Time Machine, but I didn't been so lucky, I got some problems whit it and the Mac OS has been reinstalled from scratch and the rest recovered from TM. I spent 2 days to come back to my setup 😞

 

Anyway many thanks for the answer.

 

Ciao!

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 18, 2021 Jan 18, 2021

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Hi... pls ignore my question... understood a while ago that adobe added the chance to downgrade via CC app...

If I thought to give a check before 😄

All the best!

 

José

 

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LEGEND ,
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Hi All,

 

Apologies for the delayed response. This issue has been fixed in upcoming release. You may also use the beta build 25.2 as suggested in this Illustrator UserVoice post(https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/42411133--apple...).

Hope it helps.

 

Regards,

Ashutosh

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 09, 2021 Jan 09, 2021

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Hello -

 

Further to my earlier post about 'apply character styles' producing an error message in the newest update of Illustrator, now 'rotate' and embed' are doing the same. This is killing my workflow! Does anyone have any idea if this can be fixed?

 

Thank you!

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