Re: How do I get the position of the selected Path...

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 25, 2011

you're welcome, glad to help

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 25, 2011

turn off Alerts at the beggining of your code appRef.UserInteractionLevel = aiDontDisplayAlerts turn them back on at the end of your code appRef.UserInteractionLevel = aiDisplayAlerts

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

Red, sorry about that, I didn't think of it. I wasn't aware it is not in the Documentation, I come from VB and usually work on a VB version first then rewrite to JS, I just love the VB IDE (don't like at all the ESTK). It turns out THERE IS a name property in the VBS documentation, I'm not sure what's going on, there's a bunch on differences between the two. About the naming thing, what you see in the layers palette is not a name, but more like a "preview" of the text, if not explicitly named, the name property returns "null" (I guess, or an empty string, but not a name).

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

you're welcome, don't get discouraged, that's how it works....very slow at the beggining, that's a normal learning curve.

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

hahaha, good one

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

Hi totom, welcome to the forum Layers do have textFrames, you were really close, here's the syntax for doing what you want var idoc = app.activeDocument; var ilayer = idoc.layers["M"]; var iframe = ilayer.textFrames["Name"]; iframe.selected = true;

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

Hi Tod, please elaborate on your question, a screen shot on what you're trying to do will help. something like this??

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

Hi Ivan, I don't know how to use FM, I don't have it either...so I ignore the scripting capabilities of it, there might be a way to run files, but it is not possible to access Illustrator thru DDE. However, a simple search showed that its DOM is exposed to VB for scripting...So VB can talk to both FM and Illustrator, and can tell Illustrator to run a jsx file after doing somenthing in FM, does it make sense?

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

Hi Todd, you're welcome, please explain better, I don't understand the question. are you trying to "move" a textframe (Dim textRef = myDoc.TextFrames.Add) closer to other text frames? or do you want to "zoom" to this textframe?

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

what does the script do?

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 23, 2011

to get the the coordinates do If TypeName(ArtPageItems) = "TextFrame" Then x = ArtPageItems.Left y = ArtPageItems.Top Else

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 22, 2011

Filemaker is DDE compliant...is AI? i'm not sure. What are you trying to accomplish thru DDE?, there might be alternatives [Edit] Illustrator does not support DDE

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 22, 2011

there's no need to find out the creator version, the active document coordinate system is based on the application used, for example if you used CS4 to save a document with the ruler origin at bottom/left, when you open the same document in CS5 the ruler origin will be at top/left (at least artboard rulers, since previous to CS4 there were no separate artobard/global rulers). if you still need to find out the creator version, Mark made a script for it, look here http://forums.adobe.com/message/3266819?tstart=0

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 18, 2011

copy and Paste Special...Bitmap yields decent enough results for my needs.

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 15, 2011

I get the missing font dialog when I open the file from the GUI. When I open it from the script it just opens, no dialog. var file = new File("yourFullPathFile"); var idoc = app.open(file);

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 09, 2011

after uniting the paths, the resulting path is still selected, so you could use myNewUnitedPath = iapp.ActiveDocument.Selection(0) edit: 200 post!!! hurray!!

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 05, 2011

here's a script that breaks text Frames into separate characters http://forums.adobe.com/message/3510986#3510986

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 05, 2011

Hi Victor, here's the JS version, sorry for the delay #target Illustrator // script.description = splits selected texFrame into separate characters; // script.required = select a point text textFrame before running; // script.parent = CarlosCanto; // 3/5/11 // script.elegant = false; var idoc = app.activeDocument; var tWord = idoc.selection[0]; var xpos = tWord.position[0]; var ypos = tWord.position[1]; var charCount = tWord.characters.length; for (i=charCount-1 ; i>=0 ; i--) { var ichar = tWord.duplicate(); ichar.contents = tWord.characters.contents; tWord.characters.remove(); var width = tWord.width; ichar.position = [xpos+width,ypos]; } tWord.remove();

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 05, 2011

I don't do AS, you could include the saving as pdf within the same action too, if that works for you.

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 05, 2011

pathFinder commands are not available to scripting, as Larry said you have to record and action that unites your paths first, then call it from your vbs. in this sample I named the action "pathFinderUnite", it is located in the "Set 2" actions folder. In your script, once you have selected all the paths you need to unite, call the action like this iapp.DoScript "pathFinderUnite","Set 2" iapp is my Illustrator variable

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 02, 2011

not exactly a translation #target Illustrator // var script.description = deletes hidden layers // var script.parent = CarlosCanto; // 3/2/11 // var script.elegant = false; var idoc = app.activeDocument; for (i = idoc.layers.length-1 ; i>=0 ; i--) { var ilayer = idoc.layers; if (ilayer.visible == false) { ilayer.visible = true; ilayer.locked = false; ilayer.remove(); } }

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 02, 2011

no direct way that I know of, but it is possible, I would - create a temporary pathItem - apply the desired Graphic Style - copy the temp pathItem and paste in into the destination document - delete the temp item from both source and destination documents - loop thru all graphic styles if I needed all graphic styles imported

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 02, 2011

yeah, that does require to type a name. To have a name already preselected we can use the saveDlg() function #target Illustrator var idoc = app.activeDocument; var fileName = idoc.fullName; var thisFile = new File(fileName); var saveFile = thisFile.saveDlg(); if (saveFile) { alert("clicked Ok"); idoc.saveAs (saveFile); } else { alert("clicked Cancel"); }

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 02, 2011

Hi Mark, how about.... File.saveDialog ();

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 01, 2011

Hi, can you post a screenshot showing the selected line and some other "near" lines that need to be deleted?

CarlosCanto · ‎Mar 01, 2011

you're welcome

CarlosCanto · ‎Feb 28, 2011

glad to help, Larry

CarlosCanto · ‎Feb 26, 2011

this will take care of getting rid off the small paths #target illustrator // deletes pathItems smaller than the supplied length var idoc = app.activeDocument; var howLong = prompt ("Enter the length in points of small paths to be deleted", 10, "Delete Small Paths"); for (i=0 ; i< idoc.pathItems.length; i++) { var ipath = idoc.pathItems if ( ipath.length < howLong) { ipath.selected = true; } } app.redraw(); if(confirm ("Proceed to delete selected items?", "yes", "Confirm Delete")) { app.cut(); }

CarlosCanto · ‎Feb 24, 2011

it works fine here, I'm on windows too, try downloading again. Or before that try opening any other chm file already in your system to see if it works.

CarlosCanto · ‎Feb 22, 2011

Lbound & Ubound are the VB functions to get the first and last index of the selection, there's no "length" property in VB. loop thru all items in selection and apply matrix for (var j=0;j<sel.length;j++) { sel .transform (moveMatrix); sel .selected = false; } this should set you on your World Dominance way.

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