sorry, I meant "note" instead of tag. yes, saved selections already exist, do the following in the GUI - select your saved selection - add a note in your script - go tru all items and select the ones matching the note VBA sample:     For Each pgitem In Idoc.PageItems         If pgitem.Note = "circles" Then             pgitem.Selected = True         End If     Next ... View more

that's correct, I didn't try to test it with empty string before. Only difference I found using empty string is it Re-saves the Active Document too (with all artboards) (and also asks if it is ok to overwrite) + all separate files. thanks for pointing that out. ... View more

I have good news, you could "tag" your saved selection objects in the GUI, then select them when needed via script. ... View more

that works too, now there's point text and area text samples to chose from. ... View more

enclose each line in quotations and add a carriage ruturn code at the end not familiar with JS (I think the code is "\n"), in VB it is Char(13), it would be like this myTextFrame.contents = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam est neque, vulputate sed consectetur eget," & Char(13) &_ "laoreet sed ipsum. Sed egestas elit tellus. Vestibulum sagittis iaculis ante, vel viverra nibh accumsan a. In a felis ut enim facilisis facilisis." & Char(13)_ sample: Illustrator.ActiveDocument.TextFrames(1).Contents = "123" & vba.Chr(13) & "456" result: ... View more

no that I know of, but you could trace the image and analize the resulting vectorized colors ... View more

not exactly what we all want, but there's a shortcut to "Other Scripts" Ctrl+F12. On the Open dialog point to your "myScripts" folder or any other folder where your scripts are and click on the desired script....and it has good memory, it will remember your folder after Re-starting AI. or for a 100% keyboard, on windows, -Ctrl+F12 -Shirt+Tab (to switch focus to the file list) -hit the first letter of the script's name to highlight it, keep pressing if you have several scripts that start with the same letter. -press Enter it might only save 1 or 2 clicks at a time but I rather go this way than File>Scripts>etc Message was edited by: CarlosCanto ... View more

try from scratch with a different application, use Excel for example, set the Reference to the CS4 library and try some simple code to see if it works. ... View more

try WScript.CreateObject instead of new ActiveXObject, I tested it with an old computer (in this machine I keep getting "JScript Error Expected ";") that has no illustrator. I was able to open and show photoshop and office programs. var illustrator; illustrator = WScript.CreateObject("Illustrator.Application"); illustrator.open("c:\\temp\\1.pdf"); Carlos Canto ... View more

you're welcome ... View more

try activedocument.activate ... View more

?? I got lost, I don't know what you mean. Are you trying to script something else? or do it manually? ... View more

record an action and call it from your script (VB only or AS), however the action won't work if there's no documents opened, run the action with at least one document opened. ... View more

adding points via scripting might be too difficult, at least for me, I would approach it differently. Manually is not difficult at all, but as you said, doing many of them could be time consuming. manually, based on you sample art 1. draw a 4"x4" square and move it in place 2. while still selected, go to Object, Path, Divide Objects Below 3. that's it...delete objects to the right and left of your target. now, the interesting part, I assume you know where to cut (3" to the right in your example) you could script the following: 1. get the position of the target object 2. draw you cutting square 3. position it if you do VB, make an action to Divide Objects Below 4. play the action 5. delete objects P.S. just out of curiosity, how do you do it right now manually?. ... View more

Hi Jens, I had the same problem, no matter what I tried, rotating via scripting keeps resetting the bounding box. I resolved it by recording an action to rotate the object, same results as if rotated manually. If you still need to rotate via scripting, VBS and AppleSript can execute Actions from script, JS can not. ... View more

Hi Katrina, starting with nothing selected, click on the first layer then Shift+Click on the last layer, now all desired layers are selected but no art is selected yet on the canvas. On the layer fly out menu click on "Hide Others" to hide all other layers, now hit Ctrl+A to select all artwork on the canvas. From here I'm not clear on what you need to do with the selection, as mentioned before if you group the selection, all objects will all end up in one layer. once you're done (save selection perhaps), on the layer fly out menu, click on "Show All Layers" to bring everything back on the screen CarlosCanto ... View more

Hi Praf, here's the sintax for VBS DoScript "SelectAll", "myActions" where SelectAll is a test action that lives in myActions set of actions sorry I'm not familiar with JavaScript, but it should be something similar ... View more

Hi Blues, as Mark said, one the options is to use Data Sets. Data Driven Graphics is poorly documented...this is how it works 1. Make a text frame and type "English" 2. in the variables panel, click on the "make text dynamic" button, this will make the text frame variable1 3. click on the "capture Data Set" button, this will create "Data Set 1" now build the rest of the data sets 4. edit your variable1, select "English" and edit it into "Spanish" 5.click on the "capture Data Set" button, this will create "Data Set 2" 6. edit your variable1, select "Spanish" and edit it into "German" 7.click on the "capture Data Set" button, this will create "Data Set 3" that's it, to switch between data sets, click on the "Next Data Set" button for small Data Sets, manual input works just fine but for larger sets it is better to use an xml file 8. on the Variables Panel Menu, click on the "Save Variable Library" menu 9. open the file and edit it to your needs, then load it back to Illustrator 10. click on "Load Variable Library" and load your modified xml file 11. click yes when prompted to replace existing data sets 12. select your dynamic text frame, click on your Variable1 and click on the "make text dynamic" button again to reasign it the new xml library. have fun carlos canto ... View more

Hi Rajeev, your code seems correct, I was able to set up all the IllustratorSaveOptions properties, except for the one you need. In fact, I don't know how to check if it was actually embeded after running the script. at least the check box is not checked if I try to save the file again. who knows, it might be a bug. CarlosCanto ... View more

Larry G. Schneider wrote: Carlos, Try setting another Action before running the script. I've gotten the same problem if the action I want to run is highlighted in the action panel. Hi Larry, you're a genius, it does work when the action is not highlighted. thanks Carlos ... View more

I've been thinking....If Illustrator won't help, why not get reinforcements? here's how to do it scripting photoshop with VBA '// saves the activedocument in the PhotoShop application as TIF Sub photoShopTifSave()     Dim PSapp As New Photoshop.Application     Dim tifOpts As New Photoshop.TiffSaveOptions     PSapp.ActiveDocument.SaveAs "C:\tifftest.tif", tifOpts End Sub tha's all it takes CarlosCanto ... View more

Hi Larry, Area is not a property of a textFrame. Area, as well as width and height are properties of textPath, which in turn is a property of textFrame. CarlosCanto ... View more

Hi Steve, you're getting that error message when trying to run the script on a pointText type of frame, I just made a test and it works fine with TextFrames of kind AreaText, it even works on PathText TextFrames. Create a document with only one AreaText TextFrames and run the script to make sure it works. let me know how it goes CarlosCanto ... View more

doScript syntax DoScript (Action as String, From as String [, dialogs as Boolean]) Iapp.DoScript "the name of the action", "the name of the action set", False   '// or True that's the correct syntax, but I haven't been able to run it in my machine using VB, I get the following error,  the object "play action" is not currently available. Try to see if you can get it to work in your. CarlosCanto ... View more