problem pastin path into other document

[_roby_fiore_]

Hi to everybody!

i have a problem: i have "Image 1" hat has several paths and i want to copy & paste them into "Image 2". My problem is that i use a for loop to copy and paste them, but it doesn't paste! if i look into the clipboard, i see it has copyed the last path, but when i invoke the method docRefPasted.paste() it doesn't paste anything.

This is gonna driving me crazy, can anyone help me? thanks!

[Paul Riggott]

Instead of docRefPasted.paste();
try..
executeAction( app.charIDToTypeID('past'), undefined, DialogModes.NO );
It does give some strange results though.

[_roby_fiore_]

thanks paul!

it's quite right!

the only problem is that it paste every path into each other, i have to obtain
different path, not only one with all merged inside it.

[Paul Riggott]

Yes I got the same results, maybe one of the experts will tell us how its done?

[Paul Riggott]

Doing a copy and paste manually, you need to create a new path before pasting, this will need to be added to the code. Also the new path should be selected. Haven't got it working yet, but getting interesting results.
Draging from one doc to another works fine, but no scriptListner code for it.

[_Mark_Larsen_]

Paul, in Applescript with CS2 the duplicate command was broken on path items. The way I managed to get my paths from one document to another was to open doc A create a loop that made 3 lists of variables path names, entire path & path kind close open doc B loop make new path with properties from the above lists. You need to add a little checking to see if the name already exists etc. Im taking a guess that the same could be done in JavaScript?

[Paul Riggott]

Thank you Mark, you put me on the right path (No pun intended).

Roby this seems to work so long as the paths are contiguous.
This will copy all the paths from one document to another.

var doc = app.documents[0];



var doc2 = app.documents[1];



activeDocument = doc;







for(var q =0; q< doc.pathItems.length;q++){



copyPath(doc,doc2,doc.pathItems.name);



activeDocument = doc;



}







function copyPath(From,To,PathName){



var strtRulerUnits = app.preferences.rulerUnits;



var strtTypeUnits = app.preferences.typeUnits;



app.preferences.rulerUnits = Units.POINTS;



app.preferences.typeUnits = TypeUnits.POINTS;



activeDocument = From;



var p = activeDocument.pathItems.getByName(PathName);



points = p.subPathItems[0].pathPoints.length ;



var lineArray = new Array();



for(var a = 0 ;a< points;a++){



   lineArray = new PathPointInfo;



   lineArray.kind =p.subPathItems[0].pathPoints.kind;



   lineArray.anchor = p.subPathItems[0].pathPoints.anchor;



   lineArray.leftDirection = p.subPathItems[0].pathPoints.leftDirection;



   lineArray.rightDirection = p.subPathItems[0].pathPoints.rightDirection;



   }



var lineSubPathArray = new Array();



lineSubPathArray[0] = new SubPathInfo()...