How to set aliasInkName to [No Alias]?

[gd380]

Greetings,

So I have no problem using javascript to set an ink alias:

myInk.aliasInkName = "myInkAliasColor";

Works wonderfully.

But how do I remove the alias?

I've tried:

myInk.aliasInkName = null;

myInk.aliasInkName = "";

myInk.aliasInkName = "[No Alias]";

and several others.

Help!

Thank you!

--Greg

[Shonkyin-CF145T · Accepted solution]

Hi Greg,

Check this one

//make and new spot colors "test1" and "test2" and run below code:

app.activeDocument.inks[4].aliasInkName = "test2"//inks[0]-inks[3] for CMYK

alert (app.activeDocument.inks[4].aliasInkName)

app.activeDocument.inks[4].aliasInkName = "[No Alias]"

alert (app.activeDocument.inks[4].aliasInkName)

Shonky

[gd380]

Thanks, Shonky. That worked.

I thought I tried that. Apparently I was mistaken.

But I have another question: how do you test to see if a color is aliased?

Neither of these seem to work:

               if (tempInk.aliasInkName == "[No Alias]")
                    tempInk.aliasInkName = "test1";
                else if (tempInk.aliasInkName == "[NoAlias]")
                    tempInk.aliasInkName = "test1";

Just curious - I don't actually need to do this and I can't think of a business case where I would need to.

--Greg

[Shonkyin-CF145T]

With below code you can check alias setting.

var inklength = app.activeDocument.inks.length

if (inklength>3)

{

//starting from 5th color becuase you cannot set ink alias on first four

for (a=4; a<inklength;a++)

{

alert (app.activeDocument.inks.aliasInkName)

}

}

Shonky

[gd380]

Thanks, Shony.

I was trying to get it to work in the context of an if statement, but testing for "[No Alias]" and others didn't seem to work.

--Greg