I don't know how to handle those options specifically, but the only thing I can offer is that maybe you're using the wrong composer engine? The default engine (kLatinCJKComposer) may ignore the API calls that deal with those specific settings. It's been a while, but I'm pretty sure that's how it handles all the arabic & hebrew specific settings when you're using the kLatinCJKComposer composer engine. ... View more

They're not accessible via the SDK. If you want them, you could always fish them out of the resources of the plugin that owns them. But then you'd have to include them in our own plugin resources and update them whenever AI updates its icons. ... View more

If they're in the Illustrator folder, they're probably already loaded. There are a bunch of plugins & resources scattered about that are just part of what we think of as the Illustrator UI. ... View more

As far I know, there are no APIs that will make this easy. Your best bet it so iterate over all the art in the document, comparing all art against all other art. This can be sped up by doing a bounds comparison first of course, but at some point you'll need to do the nitty gritty to determine if art overlaps art. ... View more

Is the duplicated art group in the same location or at a different spot? I think that when you copy art with a pattern, you are effectively shifting the 'window' that looks at the pattern. As if that pattern covered everything, but your art is cutting a hole through the artboard so we can see it. When you do it via AI's tools, it may automatically handle the shift for you (by shifting the pattern attached to the style). I could be wrong, but I think it's something like that. I haven't run into myself, but I feel like there's a mechanic like this going on in there for patterns. Someone else with a little more experience with patterns may be able to confirm or explain this. ... View more

By default, all the APIs work in global ruler units (in points). If you want to work in something other than global units, you have to use new APIs in CC2019. It's worth mentioning that they inverted the sign of the Y coordinates for display purposes only starting in CS5. So if you're looking at the Info panel at global ruler units expecting (x, y) & see (x, -y), they're the same thing. As for the hard/soft question, I'm not 100% clear on what you're doing. It sounds like you're picking some point -- say, (x, y) -- and then hardening it to get (x', y'). Then you shift the ruler and harden (x, y) again to get (x", y"). If so, that sounds like it's working correctly. After all, (x, y) is a soft coordinate and you've moving it with the ruler. If that's not what you're doing, clarify and I'll try to deduce what's going on. I've used the hard/soft coordinate conversion a few times. As for SetDocumentRulerOrigin, I believe it basically takes a transform for the artboard ruler's origin. So if you call SetDocumetnRulerOrigin( (-15, 25) ), you're basically saying "Shift the artboard ruler origin left 15pt and up 25pt". ... View more

The 'Extensions' menu group doesn't exist. You'd need to create it first, then use whatever name you used when you created (which is not the same as the menu text). ... View more

ai::int32 units  = 0; AIErr error = sPreference->GetIntegerPreference(0, "strokeUnits", &units); if (kNoErr == error) {      switch (units) {           case 0:                // inches                break;           case 1:                // millimeters                break;           default:               case 2:                // points                break;           case 3:                // pica                break;           case 4:                // centimeters                break;           case 5:                // not sure what this, there's a weird Japanese unit that might be #5                break;           case 6:                // pixels                break;      } } ... View more

Yeah, I'm afraid there isn't much you can do. I filed it with Adobe because they should definitely fix that! ... View more

Hmmm. I know this sounds familiar. I'm using SVGs now, it's possible the bug is only for the PNG API. Try using SVGs (just test with any old SVG) and see if that works correctly. You can save out an SVG pretty easily with Illustrator; just create an appropriately sized box of two different colours so you can tell when it switches easily. ... View more

Ahh. I think there was a bug in Illustrator where they forgot to update the panel icon. I forget what version that was, but you might be doing everything correctly and there's nothing you can do to fix it. I feel like this happened with CC2018. Is that what version you're using? ... View more

It depends on what the icon is for. If it's for a tool or panel, you can't; you can only provide a light & dark icon. If you're talking about other UI elements, there's a notifier (kAIUIBrightnessChangedNotifier in AIUITheme.h) that lets you know when the theme changes, but it will be up to you to determine which theme it is and change whatever it is you need to change. ... View more

You can ask for a notifier when a document opens, that's quite straight forward. Should be a notifier example in the SDK. The ones you want will be in AIDocument.h I don't know if you'll find out information about PDF compatibility though. I'm not sure what information is stored in an accessible way, if any. ... View more

I'm not sure it's possible to do what you want unfortunately. You can get notification that a Save event has happened, but it doesn't come with details about the save. ... View more

I don't really have any help here. Another developer wrote the code and even as I look at it, it's hard to tease out the useful bits to share with you. Hopefully the SDK or the headers have useful documentation. Sorry! ... View more

No, I did something wrong. AIArtHandle prepArt = 0; AIArtHandle art = 0; AIErr result = sAIArt->GetFirstArtOfLayer(outputLayerHandle, &art); Should be AIArtHandle prepArt = 0; AIErr result = sAIArt->GetFirstArtOfLayer(outputLayerHandle, &prepArt); The old cold was saying to Illustrator 'Put the result inside nullptr, on top'. Whoops! And it should rasterize the whole document. The layer -> prepArt is about where to put the result. ... View more

The function I gave you was expecting you to specify an existing layer onto which the new raster object could be created. You can't specify zero, you need to specify an existing layer handle. ... View more

If you want to control what a user can do to your artwork, you're looking for kPluginGroupArt (AIPluginGroup.h) A Plugin Group is basically 'custom artwork'. You get two groups, a View group and an Edit group. They act just like normal kGroupArt in that you can fill them however you want. Anything in the View group is drawn, but cannot be manipulated. Anything in the Edit group is not drawn, but can be manipulated. In your case, you'd put your Barcode art into the View group and then a path representing the bounds in the Edit group. The user would appear to be able to grab the bounds and resize it. The part you'll like best is that before an operation is performed, Illustrator will ask you if its allowed. So you could say "No resizing" if its in the Locked state, or "Yes" if it's not. You'd have to implement a way to indicate that (and probably store the state in the kPluginGroupArt's dictionary). ... View more

The above code should rasterize all layers in the document. The reference to a layer is just to determine where the output image goes. Looking at the code: void RasterizeDocument()  should have been void RasterizeDocument(AILayerHandle outputLayerHandle) and that would be the variable used when call GetFirstArtOfLayer(). ... View more

If you want the whole document, there's actually a shortcut method in AIRasterize.h, RasterizeDocument -- it basically just skips the artset parameter so you don't have to build it yourself. The following code will just spit out a raster object in the document that contains an image of the document (before the operation of course). AIBoolean progressCallback(int32 current, ai::int32 total) {      // you could update a progress dialog here if you wanted     return 1; } void RasterizeDocument() {      AIArtHandle prepArt = 0;      sArt->GetFirstArtOfLayer(layerHandle, &art);      AIRasterizeSettings settings; // this will use the default set of options      settings.type = kRasterizeARGB;      AIArtHandle raster = 0;      ai::int32 options = kRasterizeOptionsNone;      sRasterize->RasterizeDocument(&settings, kPlaceInsideOnTop, prepArt, &raster, progressCallback, options); } ... View more

Heh, this is one of the trickier APIs to work with. Use the AIArtSetSuite functions to build up an art set of what you want to rasterize. There are some nice helper functions in there to rapidly compile all the art in the document layer-by-layer if that's what you're trying to do. Setup the AIRasterizeSettings object type - colour mode of the output raster (e.g. greyscale, ARGB, RGB, CMYK, etc.) resolution - this is actually asking for the DPI. 72dpi is 'normal' anti-aliasing - there are few options, you'll have to pick the appropriate one from the #defines they provide options - again, check their list. There are some interesting ones in there, but kRasterizeOptionsNone is a good starting point. colour conversion options - just stick with the default unless you have reason to tinker spot colour preservation - again, unless you need to do something specific, leave this as the default You need to provide the bounds to be rasterized; I believe this is so that you could, say, provide an artset of the whole document, but then only rasterize a specific region. When in doubt, just get the bounds of the artset and use that. The AIRasterizeSuite has a function, ComputeBounds that takes an AIArtSetHandle -- use it! The next three arguments are the same as when you create any art: paintOrder - where, relative to the next argument (prep) do you want to put the newly created art? prep - art to use in conjunction with paintOrder - note that some paintOrder options don't require a prep parameter; 0 will suffice in those cases. raster - address of the handle in which to store the newly create art. Rasterize is going to create an image art object on the canvas where you specified using the first two parameters (paintOrder & prep). This will contain the results of the rasterization operation. The last parameter is expecting a function that matches the prototype of AIRasterizeProgressProc (defined in AIRasterize.h) During the rasterization process, it will periodically call this method so if you want to, you can show a progress dialog. You can just define a function that does nothing if you want. If all you want to do is create an image art object on the canvas, then you're done. If you want to take that image and write to a file, you've got a lot more work to do. For that, you'll have to look at how you pull the image data out of an AIRasterHandle and then convert it into PNG or JPEG or whatever you're trying to write to. It's a pain. Unfortunately, I didn't write that part of our code, so I can't help there. You can test the first part easily enough though. If your rasterization works, you'll have an image object on the canvas and you just need to look at it to tell if it did what you want If you need to put that data somwhere else, all I can do is point you at AIRaster.h, specifically at the calls involving AISlice & AITile. Good luck! ... View more

You don't have to split the group, you can walk the group using functions in AIArtSuite -- functions like GetArtFirstChild() or GetArtSibling() let you move through the art tree. These also work on kCompountPathArt objects and their children. So you could get the group and write something like this (very rough!): void HandleContainerArt(AIArtHandle groupHandle) {     AIArtHandle art = 0;     sArt->GetAttFirstChild(groupHandle, &art);     while (0 != art) {           short type;           sArt->GetArtType(art, &type);           switch (type) {               case kCompoundPathArt:               case kGroupArt:                     HandleContainerArt(art);                     break;               case kPathArt:                     ProcessPathArt(art);                     break;           }           sArt->GetArtSibling(art, &art);     } } ... View more

You can only use GetPathSegmentCount, GetPathSegments, SetPathSegmenetCount & SetPathSegments on kPathArt. If you have a group of paths, you need to get the segments from each path individually. This goes for kCompoundArt as well, which is (for your purposes) basically another kind of group container for kPathArt. ... View more

I'd never heard of conditional text. I had to go watch a video on it.  Pretty neat, I can see why it'd be useful. Kind of surprised there isn't something like this for Illustrator given the amount of packaging work its used for. I guess layers are the closest thing in AI? Kind of a brute force approach though. ... View more

Text is a confusing subject so I'm not 100% clear on what you're asking. You can get the ATE:TextRangeRef for a specified handle, but I believe you can have multiple text ranges in a single piece of text. Is there a 1:1 correlation between AIArtHandles & ATE::TextRangeRefs? If so, you can just tag the art. Failing that, no, I don't believe there is a way to do anything to tag anything below the AIArtHandle level (unless other AIArtHandles are contained therein). It sounds like you're already using the AIUUID to track art handles. That's all there is I think. ... View more

It's a joke, but you're correct in assuming it only works in English. 'Suite' from the fact that the API uses suites. 'Pea' from 'Sweet Pea' from a kind of plant native to Sicily, Cyrpus & Greece. At least, that's how I've always taken it. ... View more