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Silly-V
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‎Nov 25, 2014
06:54 AM
Okay, CS5.. are you on PC or Mac now?
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‎Nov 24, 2014
08:27 PM
Are you using CC, or at least CS6? Are the items you need to be thus converted just top-level items in a top-level layer? Because that can be done! Otherwise, it can also be done with more work..
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‎Nov 24, 2014
02:37 PM
1 Upvote
Okay, the problem is that your saved graphic style is not the same color as your art colors. You try to select fill and stroke, but it's choosing the RGB color in the graphic style. To make it work correctly, you must replace the color in the graphic style to be the spot color "New color 1 1 0 0" You can check by looking at Appearance Panel when your graphic style is selected in the Graphic Styles panel. When you double click the color swatch of your fill, you will either see an unnamed RGB color or a named Spot color.
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‎Nov 24, 2014
07:12 AM
The mystery property does not appear to be documented in the CC OMV, but it does appear in the Data Browser.
function test(){
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var p = doc.pageItems[0];
alert(p.name+". Normal Z-Order: "+p.zOrderPosition+", Absolute Z-Order: "+p.absoluteZOrderPosition);
}
test();
The above code used on doc screen-shot below prints out: Grp_2. Normal Z-Order: 7, Absolute Z-Order: 13 My experiment here, suggests that absolute order takes into account the child elements of all elements (to show z-order in entire document), and the 'regular' z-order is about the stacking within a container element. Like layer.pageItems vs document.pageItems ? Though when I first looked at this property inside one of my more cluttered real-life documents, I remember that I couldn't verify this relationship. Maybe I was tired or something.
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‎Nov 21, 2014
12:09 PM
Oh, password is required!
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‎Nov 20, 2014
02:45 PM
If you do not mind extra saving, doing a save on your document first will exit isolation mode, but keep your selection intact. (at least with manual saving);
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‎Nov 19, 2014
01:37 PM
I hope it works out for you. The raycasting is also beyond me, that is why it's wholly copied from rosettacode.org
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‎Nov 19, 2014
01:13 PM
I wish I could look at a sample file which does not work. About the "New Color 1100", what other information does the color window show? Maybe some of the colors are spot colors & not others (or there is some other differences) that make the pasted art not have the exact same stroke or fill colors. Also could the pasted art have appearance of a fill or stroke? The appearances can be applied such that "select same" would not recognize the art because the appearance is independent of stroke or fill colors which are applied directly to the path. For example, groups can have appearance with a stroke & stroke color, but no shapes in the group actually have a stroke.
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‎Nov 19, 2014
08:14 AM
Yes, I mean, do all the workstations use CS2?
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‎Nov 19, 2014
08:13 AM
Hey looks like some hidden undocumented gem, I cannot make sense of it right now. For example, I have an item which has ZOrderPosition of 13, but absoluteZOrderPosition is 30. Hmm.
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‎Nov 19, 2014
07:11 AM
I have ran the following with no problem such as you are experiencing.
function test(){
if(app.documents.length>0){
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var s = doc.placedItems[0];
var info = s.file;
alert(info);
}
}
test();
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‎Nov 19, 2014
07:00 AM
You may want to update the workstation?
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‎Nov 14, 2014
07:22 AM
It is possible to record actions to create automatic image traces & expand them (if necessary), then play the actions via script. However, it can depend on the structure of your document, how you can accomplish this. Also, the Illustrator version must be >= CS6 You can try to make a first experiment by manually using image trace to make an Image Trace art item in Illustrator and do no further action, then send to engraver. If your engraver recognizes the vector lines in the Image Trace object, that will be most likely all you need- otherwise, you may need to add the action to expand the trace object into lines.
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‎Nov 13, 2014
08:03 AM
There is a built-in Image Trace function inside Illustrator, there would be no need to script anything if you just want to trace an image.
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‎Nov 10, 2014
09:22 AM
First, all of your variables should have the var statement when they are first declared, including the loops (var i=0 ...) this will allow you to avoid the world of hurt later, as any variable which doesn't get declared with var becomes a property of the global object. Second, is your objective to just grab all text frames to move to a specific layer?
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‎Nov 04, 2014
07:04 AM
Hi all, I am sorry to bring about gloom, but it is my opinion that the (Identify by Object Name or XML_ID) is purely for input purposes while you're using Illustrator to draw. The preference controls how you can input new names (Unique name, no spaces, no start with number, etc) and makes changes to existing names to convert to the new preference. The name is now in the format of an XML_ID, so your pageItem.name is still what reflects the object's xml id.
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‎Oct 10, 2014
05:40 AM
There will be some style properties which are on an art object which are controlled by yet another property of that art object- for example, a text frame art object has a textRange which has characterAttributes which have properties such as strokeWeight (or something to that effect) and 'size' which is the size of the font used. So what this amounts to is that you have to treat different art types with each-own ways.
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‎Oct 09, 2014
08:47 AM
1 Upvote
You can make an object to store attributes you want to copy from some art item and then use that object as data for a function which takes another art item as an argument and applies all appropriate options from the data object. My sample code here relies on having 2 path items with names of 'mySource' and 'myDest' . The appStyle object acts as a clipboard to hold the style attributes of the art, and uses the for-in loops to apply and copy them, which means if AI art objects had a 'copyStyle' or 'applyStyle' properties, it would mess you up, then the names would need to change to be unique.
#target illustrator
function test(){
var doc= app.activeDocument;
var appStyle = {
fillColor: null,
strokeColor: null,
strokeWidth: null,
strokeDashes: null,
strokeDashOffset: null,
copyStyle: function(sourceArt){
var a = sourceArt;
for(var all in this){
if(a.hasOwnProperty(all)){
this[all] = a[all];
}
}
},
applyStyle: function(destArt){
var b = destArt;
for(var all in this){
if(b.hasOwnProperty(all) && this[all] != null){
b[all] = this[all];
}
}
}
};
var mySourcePath = doc.pathItems.getByName('mySource');
var myDestPath = doc.pathItems.getByName('myDest');
appStyle.copyStyle(mySourcePath);
appStyle.applyStyle(myDestPath);
}
test();
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‎Oct 08, 2014
07:45 AM
2 Upvotes
The way AI scripting treats working with palettes makes me appreciate the silent mechanisms behind regular & other app palettes all around us which I take for granted all of the time. When I did some BT function work, I think I ended up making a 'main' function to send to via BT , and in that main function I would have replaceable strings which get dynamically replaced by my in-script choices in a string-replace action inside the function which sends the BT message. This is some sample code from my sample palette:
function asSourceString(func){
return func.toSource().toString().replace("(function "+func.name+"(){","").replace(/}\)$/,"");
}
function sendBTmsg(func, updateObj, resultFunc, resultFuncArgs){
if(updateObj==undefined){updateObj={self: 'nothing'}};
var updateObjName=updateObj.self;
if(updateObjName!=undefined){
var bt=new BridgeTalk;
bt.target='illustrator';
var btMsg=asSourceString(func);
for(all in updateObj){
if(all!='self'){
var rx=new RegExp(updateObjName+'\\.'+all,'g');
btMsg=btMsg.replace(rx,updateObj[all]);
}
}
bt.body=btMsg;
//$.write(btMsg);
bt.onResult=function(result){
if(resultFunc!=undefined){
resultFunc(result.body, resultFuncArgs);
}
}
bt.send();
} else {
$.writeln("Error, function 'sendBTmsg(func, updateOb)': the update object should have a 'self' property, indentifying its' name.");
}
}
function returnRefresh(){
outcome={
width: width,
height: height,
unitsName: unitsName,
}.toSource()
}
function processRefresh(objString, args){
var uiStuff=args[0];
var obj=eval(objString);
uiStuff.wE.text=obj.width+" "+obj.unitsName;
uiStuff.hE.text=obj.height+" "+obj.unitsName;
}
var UNITS={
self: "UNITS",
_in: {ratio: 1/72, name: '"in"'},
_mm: {ratio: 0.352777778, name: '"mm"'},
_pt: {ratio: 1, name: '"pt"'}
};
var INFO={
self: "INFO",
unitsRatio: UNITS._in.ratio,
unitsName: UNITS._in.name,
procedure: asSourceString(doNothing),
decimals: 3,
colortype: '"CMYKColor"',
clr_1: 0,
clr_2: 100,
clr_3: 100,
clr_4: 0,
arrowType: 1,
};
// Main messenger function
function paletteToAI(){
outcome=null;
if(app.documents.length>0){
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var sel=doc.selection;
if(sel.length>0){
var top,left,bottom,right;
if(sel.length>1){
alert("selection items : "+sel.length);
} else {
var item=sel[0];
left=item.visibleBounds[0];
top=item.visibleBounds[1];
right=item.visibleBounds[2];
bottom=item.visibleBounds[3];
var cv=1*INFO.unitsRatio;
var decimals=Math.pow(10,INFO.decimals);
var pointWidth=-1*(left-right);
var pointHeight=top-bottom;
var width=Math.round(-1*(left-right)*cv*decimals)/decimals;
var height=Math.round((top-bottom)*cv*decimals)/decimals;
var unitsName=INFO.unitsName;
var proportionFactor=function(){
var num=(pointWidth<pointHeight) ? pointWidth:pointHeight;
if(num>72){
return 1;
} else {
return (num>10) ? num/72:10/72;
}
}();
INFO.procedure;
}
} else {
alert("Please select an Art Object...");
outcome=null;
}
} else {
alert("There isnt an open document!");
outcome=null;
}
}
//=========================================== Skip down to where this is attached to palette controls... =================//
refreshBtn.addEventListener('mousedown',function(){ // REFRESH
INFO.unitsRatio=UNITS['_'+unitsDD.selection.text].ratio;
INFO.unitsName=UNITS['_'+unitsDD.selection.text].name;
INFO.procedure=asSourceString(returnRefresh);
INFO.decimals=decimalsDD.selection.text;
sendBTmsg(paletteToAI, INFO, processRefresh,[uiStuff]);
});
specsBtn.addEventListener('mousedown',function(){ // Real Specs
INFO.unitsRatio=UNITS['_'+unitsDD.selection.text].ratio;
INFO.unitsName=UNITS['_'+unitsDD.selection.text].name;
INFO.decimals=decimalsDD.selection.text;
INFO.procedure=asSourceString(putSpecs);
sendBTmsg(paletteToAI, INFO, processRefresh,[uiStuff]);
});
This is the part where it all comes together inside the addEventListeners on particular UI controls. The INFO object gets updated from all the UI inputs and the sendBTmsg function uses the paletteToAI (main message function) which also uses the INFO object for the INFO.procedure part, which becomes the specific function inside the main function. The processRefresh and [uiStuff] are there to basically refresh the palette UI based on what happened in the BT procedure using the BT onresult call.
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‎Oct 08, 2014
06:41 AM
Yea, I just blurted out some pseudo-code there, it sure does have to be groupItems.
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‎Oct 06, 2014
02:15 PM
1 Upvote
You can find your art item with var special = document.getByName('TheSpecial'), and then you can move it like so: special.move(special.parent, ElementPlacement.PLACEAFTER); There is no need to cut and paste, or keep track of position
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‎Oct 06, 2014
12:39 PM
This is looking good!
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‎Oct 06, 2014
09:17 AM
1 Upvote
Actually, sir, you probably want to leave it after your rasterizing loop, because the function you've made takes every raster item in the document and does the thing, even the ones already inside your 1st Data layer. Of course, it may work for now, but it's less efficient.
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‎Oct 03, 2014
12:11 PM
Your script should find a way to move the resulted rasterItems into your layer.
var myLayer = myDoc.layers.getByName('1st Data');
for ( var i=0; i < myDoc.rasterItems.length ; i++ )
{
var thisItem = myDoc.rasterItems;
thisItem.move(myLayer, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
}
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‎Sep 24, 2014
01:59 PM
Hi Carlos, Would this one involve actions? Would it be possible to play an offsetting action with the 2mm preset?
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‎Sep 23, 2014
02:35 PM
What I experienced with BridgeTalk is summed up as learning how to write everything needed to be done inside of a function which can then be sent through bridgetalk as a string to be ran as a totally independent script, and having twice the fun because it didn't really throw any error and failed silently when working with palette.
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‎Sep 23, 2014
08:10 AM
Sorry, I had a different idea about the purpose of seeing the separations, for your work the actions & scripts may be the way to go.
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‎Sep 23, 2014
05:39 AM
It is too complicated to do quickly, and we do not know 100% of your goals, but the way you'd do it is use the document's inkList to see which separations are listed and printable, then you would display that information in a UI window.
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‎Sep 22, 2014
02:07 PM
That being the case, there may be some funny workarounds that may be applied depending on how much the end result should need to resemble a graphic style. For example, it may be possible to use existing styles in combination to change the appearance of something.
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