Carlos, welcome to headache… I can't work it out… $.writeln(app.coordinateSystem); Always returns 'CoordinateSystem.DOCUMENTCOORDINATESYSTEM' no matter if Im using artboard or global rulers… I can't find a purpose for it…? Strangely your… var idoc = app.documents.add(); Creates a doc where 0,0 is bottom/left like of old… Yet using the GUI to make a new doc is always top/left… app.activeDocument.pathItems.rectangle(100,0,100,100); Works as yours with your scripted new document creation… but is off the top of the page with a doc already open… Trying to work this out wrecked both my head and a weekend… Gave up and went for a pint and watch the football instead… Both artboard & global rulers 0,0 stays top/left in a doc I create in the GUI yet it jumps top/left to bottom/left on a doc created by script… If you get to work any sort of sense of it do lit me know and put me out of my misery… ... View more

Firstly… You could just save that snippet in to Illustrator's scripts folder, make a action that calls it via 'insert menu item' from the flyout, once you have the recorded and saved action use as a batch… The other way would be to have a purpose built script that does the whole of the processing for you… Much would depend up on the files in question where they are within your file system… If you need the latter then start a new topic this is an old thread… If you go down the action route don't forget that the script call will be forgotten by the app at quit… A much complained about issue… ... View more

Some thing like this should do it for CS5… Plus I did it so it's simple enough to adjust… #target illustrator var doc = app.activeDocument; var docVB = doc.visibleBounds; var left = docVB[0] - 20; var top = docVB[1] + 20; var right = docVB[2] + 20; var bottom = docVB[3] - 20; var ab = doc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex(); doc.artboards[ab].artboardRect = [left,top,right,bottom]; ... View more

There is also app.scriptArgs that you could use for this… ... View more

Unfortunately No… The only app in the suite that allows JS to perform AS is Indesign… With its app.doScript() you will quickly find me on a rant about a level playing field for this stuff… That's why the copy from text frame is probably still the way I would go… too many hoops to jump thru otherwise… ... View more

app.system() is Bridge and Photoshop only isn't it? Not even documented in Photoshop either… Would be nice to have suite wide I have mentioned several times in the forums before now… Did someone listen and I didn't notice… If it did work you could try pbcopy & pbpaste… ... View more

Just wondering… why did you need it on the clipboard? There is no direct way with the ESTK such as AppleScript's… set the clipboard to "Some String" ... View more

Graphic's/images in tables are inline so if there is nothing else in the cell could you not just set the content string back to "" tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2" activate tell the active document tell text frame 1 tell table 1 set contents of cell 1 of row 1 to "" end tell end tell end tell end tell ... View more

No its not quite like that… an array's (more than one item or list of items if you prefer) length is the count of how many items are in it… When >1 is the case you need to deal with each item in turn. If your group had say 3 path items you would need to change the fill for each path separately within the group… To do this you need a loop statement… ... View more

Anton, the script has 2 if statements firstly selection.length = 0… Stop nothing is selected. Then if selection.length > 1… Stop there is no loop to deal with multi items built into it… Its doing exactly what its supposed to… Are you selecting a single illustrator 'group' or are you selecting a bunch of loose items? either way you would need to iterate each item… ... View more

It is a menu item of Effect and refers to the resolution for rasterizing things such as drop shadow effects… ... View more

Well, Im now at home so I went back to the older install of the ESTK and CS2 and the result is the same as at work… In the newer tool kit and CS5 all is well and it works as I had hoped it would before now… Thanks Chris I will just have to bear that in mind… ... View more

Chris, I went and ran some checks and it would appear to work when ran from inside of Illustrator's scripts folder by the app. It still errors at the getByName() line every which way I try write… No such element… When ran in ESTK with Illustrator as target… it's the same Im sure in other app's where I use this method… ... View more

Chris, getByName() is what causes an error for me… It's all fine and dandy when the element is in the collection… But if Im not sure if this is going to be the case then I have to test the collection elements by name property then proceed… Putting a try catch statement around this just does not work for me…? I would be happy if it returned null and I could carry on… ... View more

I've never been able to get this way to work… I just get 'No such element' and a script freeze at the getByName() line… Nothing is thrown over to the catch to create the swatch…? ... View more

Can you try/catch a getByName() like this? It's never worked for me? I just get a runtime error… ... View more

Use… At the head of your script… This will auto select the target app when run against the ESTK #target illustrator You could also include… #targetengine main I don't think its longer possible to run from outside the app without that dammed dialog now… ... View more

Have you tried to see if you can record the 'save as' using scriptlistener plug-in? ... View more

Anton, this should be pretty close for a guide… I don't know what your exact font name would be… so this uses my closest match. Also you don't mention text positioning on the artboard/doc… The stroke is default 1pt as is. The height of the outlined text would be dependent on your font and you may have to tinker with the size where shown… #target illustrator function docNameToText() {      if (app.documents.length = 0) {           return;      } else {           var docRef = app.activeDocument;                      var docName = docRef.name;                      var text = docName.replace(/\.(ai|eps|pdf)$/i,'');                      var arialFont = app.textFonts.getByName('ArialMT-Bold'); // Add font name here…                      var nameText = docRef.textFrames.add();                      nameText.contents = text;                      var nameChar = nameText.lines[0].characters;                      for (var i = 0; i < nameChar.length; i++) {                           nameChar.characterAttributes.textFont = arialFont;                           nameChar.characterAttributes.size = 40; // Adjust font size here…                      }                      var textGroup = nameText.createOutline();                      textGroup.position = [36,-36]; // Half Inch down/across from top/left                      var groupBounds = textGroup.visibleBounds;                      var ccLayer = docRef.layers.getByName('CC');                      textGroup.move(ccLayer, ElementPlacement.INSIDE);                      var artLayer = docRef.layers.getByName('Artwork');                      // This can't be the right way to do this now can it?           var boxTop = groupBounds[1] + 4;           var boxLeft = groupBounds[0] - 4;           var boxWidth = (groupBounds[2] - groupBounds[0]) + 8;           var boxHeight = (-groupBounds[3] - -groupBounds[1]) + 8;                      var spotBox = docRef.pathItems.rectangle(boxTop,boxLeft,boxWidth,boxHeight);                      spotBox.filled = false;                      spotBox.stroked = true;                      //spotBox.strokeWidth = 1; // Default is 1pt                      var ccSpot = docRef.swatches.getByName('CC');                      spotBox.strokeColor = ccSpot.color;                      textGroup.move(artLayer, ElementPlacement.INSIDE);             } }; docNameToText(); ... View more

Sorry, about that… It took 5 years for me to get upgraded from CS2 to CS5… I don't have to deal with 5.5 yet… but I would expect it to still be 15? Im only parsing the first major part… I can't confirm if CS4 was still bottom/left based and positive up… You can read both the creator version and the last saved as version out of the file… ... View more

It is complex and something I have not had much time to deal with… I jumped from CS2 (Artboardless) to CS5. I did try and work a couple of thing out whilst putting together this panel… Although I still have work to do on this… Need to change how I get the user units…CS5 does work from top/left but works down the page in a negative fashion. I've never had CS4 to see if things are any different… http://forums.adobe.com/thread/837039?tstart=0 ... View more

Yep same here… var appScr = 'return \"This String…\"'; alert(app.doScript(appScr, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE)); ... View more

These options are available to the suite and should be located in… /Library/Application Support/Adobe/Adobe PDF/Settings/YourListOfOptions You could see if any other app like ID is seeing them OK… It sounds more a machine maintenance issue that script related… ... View more