Try this (also modified from the AppleScript guide) tell application "Adobe Illustrator" set symNames to "" if not (exists document 1) then error "There is no available document." get the name of every symbol of document 1 repeat with theName in the result set symNames to symNames & theName & return end repeat display dialog symNames end tell ... View more

A symbol has a name; a symbol item doesn't. ... View more

Adapted from the AppleScript guide tell application "Adobe Illustrator" activate make new symbol item in document 1 with properties ¬ {symbol:symbol "USGS" of document 1, position:{100, 200}} end tell where the name in quotes is the name of the symbol. ... View more

Dave, You'll have the better part of 24 hours on the plane to figure this out (that is if you make the plane). ... View more

Have you tried printing from Preview to see if it is the file or the application? ... View more

You will need to use the setEntirePath construction although I'm not sure how to do this in C#. It is not a supported scripting language. ... View more

You will probably need to force your windows to a specific location on the screen to prevent overlap. ... View more

Just copy the above, open a text editing program like TextEdit and paste. Save it as a regular text file with a .jsx extension. Place in the script folder and run from the menu. ... View more

I think you are right, Ray. I have not been able to copy/paste any info from late version MS Excel into AICS3. It still works for AICS2/Office 04. OSX.5.6, AICS3 ... View more

Sorry, forgot to include specs. ... View more

http://www.adobeforums.com/webx/.59b755e9/3 ... View more

In the File menu, there is an item called File info which might help. ... View more

Try dropping the "s" from jpegExportPreferences. In the ID3 Object Model html reference it is listed as jpegExportPreference ... View more

It's an OS thing now. The OS and the applications all now read the extension to figure which application deals with a given file type. Have you tried to use Get Info on one of you SVG files with the .ill extension and setting Illustrator as the app to open this file type? You could this setting to tell the OS to open all files of this type in a certain application. The same might be true of the EPS files. ... View more

You are probably going to have to make the files into EPS from the source program or print them to a .ps file for Illustrator to open. You will then be able to output them as desired. ... View more

Open a new document, draw a circle and run this. var docRef = app.activeDocument var lineRef = docRef.pathItems[0]; var pathTextRef = docRef.textFrames.pathText(lineRef); docRef.textFrames[0].contents = "Path TextFrame."; ... View more

The way you suggest is probably faster. I was having trouble with your nested repeat. For the second question, it would probably work to use a named swatch and set the stroke color to that swatch which should cover the decimal string. ... View more

Here's a sample ---------begin tell application "Adobe Illustrator" set myLayer to every layer of current document whose name is yourName --(the name of the layer you want invisible) set visible of myLayer to false end repeat end tell ---------end ... View more

Chris, I don't know why you install is giving you the wrong info in the properties list. Sounds like something is wrong. The following will give you the items with the same stroke selected so you can work with them. ---------begin tell application "Adobe Illustrator" tell current document tell layer 1 set theList to every page item of it repeat with k from 1 to count of theList if stroke color of item k of theList = {class:CMYK color info, cyan:0.0, magenta:100.0, yellow:100.0, black:0.0} then set selected of item k of theList to true --display dialog "hey" end if end repeat end tell end tell end tell --------end ... View more

Eric, I've found out in the past that even if you change the Document Color Mode from RGB to CMYK, the original mode will still be shown when reopening the file in the color panel. My CMYK fill and stroke are set to no fill and a 0.5 pt stroke. If I open a file that started life as an RGB file, even though it has been changed to CMYK, the color panel will show a white fill and a 1 pt stroke, the setting in my RGB startup file. ... View more

PDF needs to have a new instance of the PDFSaveOptions created. Look at the JS Reference PDFSaveOptions Options for saving a document as an Adobe PDF file, used with the saveAs method. All properties are optional. Saving to PDF format // Saves the current document as PDF to dest with specified options // dest contains the full path and file name to save to function saveFileToPDF (dest) { var doc = app.activeDocument; if ( app.documents.length > 0 ) { var saveName = new File ( dest ); saveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions(); saveOpts.compatibility = PDFCompatibility.ACROBAT5; saveOpts.generateThumbnails = true; saveOpts.preserveEditability = true; doc.saveAs( saveName, saveOpts ); } } ... View more

This works --get a sourceFolder that holds the files to print set sourceFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose a folder with files to process:") as text -- get a list of files of the files to be printed in the sourceFolder tell application "Finder" to set workingFiles to (every file of folder sourceFolder) as alias list repeat with aFile in workingFiles tell application "Adobe Illustrator" open aFile set currentFile to front document tell application "Adobe Illustrator" do script "Delete Unused Palette Items" from "Default Actions" without dialogs end tell close currentFile with saving end tell end repeat ... View more

Try set selection to every page item of document 1 ... View more

This is from the CS3 JS reference A documents color space, height, and width can only be set when the document is created. You cannot modify these properties in an existing document. So the only way around this is to create a new document at the size you want and move everything to it. ... View more

Have you tried it with the Overprint Preview on? ... View more

Many of the things available in the UI are not able to be scripted. I don't see it in the list of export options. You may have to venture into doing by system calls. ... View more

Click on my name and send me an email. ... View more

There should be a script installed with AI called Save_Docs_AS_PDF which should give you some direction. ... View more

Did you try the "as alias" as shown in the example? ... View more