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Sep 18, 2014
08:42 AM
I don't think you can mess with the separations preview through the scripting commands, what are you trying to do if it was possible?
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Sep 17, 2014
10:42 AM
1 Upvote
You had it fine, you just can't name it "Black". addSwatch('black'); will work but not addSwatch('Black');
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Sep 17, 2014
10:39 AM
Oh DUH!! Haha you just can't use "Black" as a color name.. reserved.
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Sep 17, 2014
10:32 AM
1 Upvote
It was something with the order in which you do this process.
function addSwatch(color) {
var newSpot = activeDocument.spots.add();
newSpot.colorType = ColorModel.SPOT;
var newColor = new CMYKColor();
newColor.cyan = colors[color].c;
newColor.magenta = colors[color].m;
newColor.yellow = colors[color].y;
newColor.black = colors[color].k;
newSpot.color = newColor;
var newSpotColor = new SpotColor();
newSpotColor.spot = newSpot;
newSpotColor.name = color;
}
I guess after you assign the spot a color model, you can't give it a name, so you give the name to the swatch-spot-color-thing-object which was created with new SpotColor() and had your spot assigned to it. Scratch that, it's not putting the name on it.
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Sep 17, 2014
10:00 AM
Maybe try in reverse? Also be aware you do not want to remove the registration and the no-color swatch.
var doc=app.activeDocument;
for(var i=doc.swatches.length-1; i>1; i--){
doc.swatches.remove();
}
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Sep 16, 2014
08:13 AM
This is what you want.
function test(){
function dismantle(group){
var prnt = group.parent;
var cont = (group.typename == 'CompoundPathItem') ? "pathItems" : "pageItems";
var insertIdx = (function(){
var ln = prnt.pageItems.length;
for(var i=0; i<ln; i++){
var item = prnt.pageItems;
if(item == group){
return prnt.pageItems;
}
}
})();
for(var i=group[cont].length-1; i>-1; i--){
var item = group[cont];
item.move(insertIdx, ElementPlacement.PLACEAFTER);
}
}
function breakUpLayer(layer){
while(layer.groupItems.length>0 || layer.compoundPathItems.length>0){
var groupIdx = layer.groupItems.length-1;
while(groupIdx>-1){
dismantle(layer.groupItems[groupIdx]);
groupIdx--;
}
var compIdx = layer.compoundPathItems.length-1;
while(compIdx>-1){
dismantle(layer.compoundPathItems[compIdx]);
compIdx--;
}
redraw(); //hate to do this, but items.lengths do not update otherwise.
}
}
if(app == "[Application Adobe Illustrator]" && app.documents.length>0){
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var firstLr = doc.layers[0];
breakUpLayer(firstLr);
}
}
test();
The only problem I think you may run into is the quirky way Illustrator allows Groups to be inside CompoundPaths. Crazy, right, because CompoundPathItem doesn't have a GroupItems or PageItems property, so you can't get them out using the above method. In fact, it may get stuck in an infinite loop if there's one like that! Really, this problem should be quite RARE because nobody should be putting groups into compound paths. But, for safety this is best ran from the ETSK so you can Stop the Debugging if such a problem happens. You could also build a safety counter to break you out of the loop. What a quirk!
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Sep 15, 2014
12:50 PM
I do not think there is, you have to calculate a proportion factor yourself and use any of the resizing methods such as transform() , resize(), or just setting width & height properties.
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Sep 11, 2014
01:52 PM
2 Upvotes
Oh yes, of course. See this documentation on bezier equation. http://www.tinaja.com/glib/cubemath.pdf Also, I have seen scripts on this very forum, I think, which position and orient objects on a path.
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Sep 11, 2014
04:58 AM
Sorry, I thought you may have had something. To make a script which saves a PDF is fairly straightforward: you need to take your current document and save it as PDF by changing the PDFSaveOptions and doing a document.saveAs(dest_file_obj, save_options). To create a text file with that PDF's name inside it, you have to create a quick file using these commands: var myTxtFile = new File({{your_file_path}}); myTxtFile.open('w'); myTxtFile.write({{name_of_your_pdf_file.txt}}); myTxtFile.close(); If your filepath for the myTxtFile was a valid one, you will be able to find a brand-new text file in the location you've specified it in. It was sure a treat when I made my first one like that! Anyways, this same file will be overwritten everytime you save the PDF in this manner. The name of the pdf will be written inside it, and that's how the Autohotkey will know what file to attch to your email. The modified timestamp on that file will also let Autohotkey know that the PDF has been saved fully so it doesn't try to attach it too soon. If the PDF takes longer than the timing loop within the AHK script, it will produce you a timeout message. In case you're new to Extendscript, to get started trying to figure out your PDF saving script, use this as a starting point: #target illustrator function myScript(){ if(app.documents.length>0){ var doc=app.activeDocument; alert("Name of my current document is: "+doc.name); } else { alert("gotta have a document open to save as PDF!"); } } myScript(); Press F1 to open the Object Model Viewer to see all the commands you can do with the 'doc' variable.. including the saveAs.
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Sep 10, 2014
11:38 AM
You talkin' 'bout the ol' XMP?
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Sep 10, 2014
10:06 AM
Well, as the kids' paper-crafts book I used to try to put together which frustrated the hell out of me, mockingly read on the bottom of the instructions: "ТЕРПЕНИЕ И ТРУД ВСЕ ПЕРЕТРУТ" That is, patience and perseverance will overcome all. To use the below, you've gotta get Autohotkey_L, I believe, and it's not that hard to use.. but it takes some time to learn the various things if you want to write your own ones like this: {{YOUR_OWN_HOTKEY_HERE}}:: MyTempFile = C:\Users\{{YOUR_USER_NAME}}\last_proof_sent.txt Run {{YOUR_JSX_SCRIPT}}.jsx ;Save the PDF proof - the script needs to write a temp text file in a place somewhere, which writes the full name of your saved PDF! ; I called my temp text file "last_proof_sent.txt" CurrentDateTime := A_Now ;get current time sleep, 500 FileGetTime, FileTime, %MyTempFile% ;get mod date of this temp file TimeCounter = 0 ;initialize time counter for waiting for PDF to save While(CurrentDateTime > FileTime and TimeCounter < 1000) ;waiting period to see if temp text file has updated since start of this script { sleep, 20 TimeCounter++ FileGetTime, FileTime, %MyTempFile% ; each time get the modification date of the temp text file } If(CurrentDateTime < FileTime){ FileRead, MyPDFFileName, %MyTempFile% ;read the contents of temp file for location of PDF file path (It was written there by your JSX script, hopefully) If Not ErrorLevel{ m := ComObjActive("Outlook.Application").CreateItem(0) m.Subject := "Greetings to all" ; <---- Subject ----- m.To := "address here" ; <---- Recipient ----- m.HTMLBody := "email body" ; <---- Email message body ----- m.Display m.attachments.add(MyPDFFileName) ; This is the attachments! } else { MsgBox, Error Reading the temporary file %MyTempFile% } } else { MsgBox, "Sorry, action timed-out." } return *** I have tested this on one file where I had a test folder on my desktop. The ExtendScript likes to put the file path like "~Desktop/", but I used myFile.fsName to get the full "C:/Users/Me..." name in case it was gonna be confusing to AHK.
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Sep 10, 2014
08:21 AM
Actually, it's probably possible with Autohotkey and Extendscript: you rig an AHK to first run your jsx which saves a pdf and also maybe stores the name/filepath of it in a text file somewhere. Then you have you ahk script wait a while to see if your text file is updated and the PDF has finished saving- at which point it can trigger Outlook to run with pre-filled items and attachment of the pdf file you've just saved. Here is the ahk email google link I've googled up: Outlook email, attachments, signatures (COM, HTML) - Scripts - AutoHotkey Community I kinda wanna try doing this at my work too.
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Sep 10, 2014
07:32 AM
1 Upvote
I just don't think that's possible with just javascript. If it's really impossible, your next best option may be to have your script open your file with multiple artboards, automatically save them as each separate file in a special folder and place them into your main file every time. If that actually saves you time, why not?
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Sep 10, 2014
06:56 AM
Oh yea, anything is possible! -- but it will probably be above the scope of just Illustrator scripting, this kind of script may need a VBA script for Outlook, a JSX script for Illustrator, and an Autohotkey to run them all!
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Sep 09, 2014
11:17 AM
Oooh, not sure if it's possible to do import options with javascript's placedItem. Sorry, but if so, your best choice may be to open the multi-page doc and copy the contents of the artboards
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Sep 09, 2014
10:49 AM
This may help you:
if(doc.artboards.length > 1){
doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex(1);
}
It should select the 2nd artboard, and if your coordinate system is appropriately chosen to CoordinateSystem.ARTBOARDCOORDINATESYSTEM, I think it should give you what you are looking for.
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Sep 09, 2014
05:06 AM
Is that because it's a Compound Path and doing just one part of it will give an error? If so, you'd need to do rasterize for the compoundPathItems of the doc 1st, then repeat with the pathItems second.
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Sep 07, 2014
02:18 AM
you'd be fine with just doing this (below) -- since your layers' names are already known to you. The function puts the get-by-names into a try{}catch{} so that the script won't error-out when a name isn't found:
function test(){
function tryLockLayer(name){
try{
lrs.getByName(name).locked = true;
} catch(e) {
return;
}
};
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var lrs = doc.layers;
tryLockLayer("Artwork");
tryLockLayer("Graphics");
tryLockLayer("Info");
}
test();
also if the layers other than Info are ones you want to lock, you can just loop and lock layers whose names are not "info"
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Sep 05, 2014
11:55 AM
1 Upvote
Oh you have questions, feel free to ask 'em here! First, the "bezier polygon" which I construct from path points using the Bezier equation is just an array of interpolated points.. see those commented-out lines toward the bottom, uncomment them to see what it being drawn. //markBezierPoints(bezPts); //makePolygon(bezPts); It's not an object type, but rather just a set of points derived from the ellipse. Each set of 2 of those points is then fed into a function which checks to see if a ray from a point you want to check intersects them. If it intersects them an even number, it means your point is outside the shape.
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Sep 05, 2014
09:47 AM
1 Upvote
This is good mind-exercise. What I've come up with below will let you know whether your single path's entire set of anchor points is located wholly within a closed bezier path.
What you need to do to start working on it is make a document, make your containing ellipse and call it "mycir" and test out a path called "mypth". The script gets a bezier interpolated point-polygon from the ellipse and uses the raycasting to check anchors of a test path to see if all are inside. Of course you may already see the problem of parts of your curve which are not anchors overlapping the ellipse and not being detected. If that's such a big problem, you will need to change the process to create the bezier polygon of your test path and check that with the raycasting. And that's just for one path- to do an entire group, yes, you'll need to adapt it to work on a whole group of paths. One more thing- this is really based on points.. so if your group has.. some effects, or appearance which really goes outside the boundaries, you'll definitely need to find a way to expand those to find your true boundaries, and raster effects may be a real deal-breaker.
#target illustrator
function test () {
if (!Array.prototype.indexOf) {
Array.prototype.indexOf = function(searchElement, fromIndex) {
var k;
if (this == null) {
throw new TypeError('"this" is null or not defined');
}
var o = Object(this);
var len = o.length >>> 0;
if (len === 0) {
return -1;
}
var n = +fromIndex || 0;
if (Math.abs(n) === Infinity) {
n = 0;
}
if (n >= len) {
return -1;
}
k = Math.max(n >= 0 ? n : len - Math.abs(n), 0);
while (k < len) {
if (k in o && o[k] === searchElement) {
return k;
}
k++;
}
return -1;
};
};
function foreach (arr, func) {
for (var i = 0; i < arr.length; i++) {
func(arr[i]);
}
}
function marker (xy, container) {
var container = container || doc;
var z = container.pathItems.ellipse(xy[1] + 2, xy[0] - 2, 4, 4);
z.stroked = false;
z.filled = true;
z.fillColor = clr;
}
function getPathPoints (path) { // collects pathPoints of a path into segment arrays of 2 anchors & 2 controls between them
var arr = [];
for (var i = 0, ln = path.pathPoints.length; i < ln; i++) { // designed to work on closed paths!
if (i < ln - 1) {
var p = path.pathPoints[i], pnext = path.pathPoints[i + 1];
} else {
var p = path.pathPoints[i], pnext = path.pathPoints[0];
}
arr.push([p.anchor, p.rightDirection, pnext.leftDirection, pnext.anchor]);
}
return arr;
}
function getBezierSegment (segArr) { // turns a pathPoint segment (gotten with getPathPoints) into bezier interpolated points
var anch2 = segArr[3], cont2 = segArr[2], cont1 = segArr[1], anch1 = segArr[0];
var resultPts = [];
var a = anch2[0] - 3 * (cont2[0]) + 3 * (cont1[0]) - anch1[0];
var b = 3 * (cont2[0]) - 6 * (cont1[0]) + 3 * anch1[0];
var c = 3 * (cont1[0]) - 3 * (anch1[0]);
var d = anch1[0];
var e = anch2[1] - 3 * (cont2[1]) + 3 * (cont1[1]) - anch1[1];
var f = 3 * (cont2[1]) - 6 * (cont1[1]) + 3 * anch1[1];
var g = 3 * (cont1[1]) - 3 * (anch1[1]);
var h = anch1[1];
var inc = 0.1;
for (var t = 0; t < 1; t += inc) {
resultPts.push([
a * Math.pow(t, 3) + b * Math.pow(t, 2) + (c * t) + d,
e * Math.pow(t, 3) + f * Math.pow(t, 2) + (g * t) + h
]);
}
return resultPts;
}
function getBezierPath (pathPts) { // turns entire series of segments (gotten with getPathPoints) into a complete set of interpolated bezier points
var pathArr = [];
for (var i = 0; i < pathPts.length; i++) {
var thisPtSet = pathPts[i];
var seg = getBezierSegment(thisPtSet);
if (
i > 0 && (seg[0][0] == pathArr[pathArr.length - 1][0] &&
seg[0][1] == pathArr[pathArr.length - 1][1])
) {
seg.splice(0, 1);
}
pathArr = pathArr.concat(seg);
}
return pathArr;
}
function markBezierPoints (seg) {
var grp = doc.groupItems.add();
grp.name = "MyGroup";
for (var i = 0; i < seg.length; i++) {
marker(seg, grp);
}
}
function makePolygon (pts) {
var pth = doc.pathItems.add();
pth.setEntirePath(pts);
pth.filled = false;
pth.stroked = true;
pth.strokeColor = clr;
pth.strokeWidth = 1;
}
var RayCaster = { // the whole raycasting through polygon algorithm from http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Ray-casting_algorithm
// evaluates a single point to see if it's inside a polygon.
Point : function (x, y) {
this.x = x;
this.y = y;
},
pointInPoly : function (point, poly) {
var index, intersected, pointA, pointB, segment, segments;
segments = (function () {
var _i, _len, _results;
_results = [];
for (index = 0, _len = poly.length; index < _len; index++) {
pointA = poly[index];
pointB = poly[(index + 1) % poly.length];
_results.push([new RayCaster.Point(pointA[0], pointA[1]), new RayCaster.Point(pointB[0], pointB[1])]);
}
return _results;
})();
intersected = (function () {
var _i, _len, _results;
_results = [];
for (_i = 0, _len = segments.length; _i < _len; _i++) {
segment = segments[_i];
if (
RayCaster.rayIntersectsSegment(new RayCaster.Point(point[0], point[1]), segment)
) {
_results.push(segment);
}
}
return _results;
})();
return intersected.length % 2 !== 0;
},
rayIntersectsSegment : function (p, segment) {
var a, b, mAB, mAP, p1, p2, _ref;
p1 = segment[0], p2 = segment[1];
_ref = p1.y < p2.y ? [p1, p2] : [p2, p1], a = _ref[0], b = _ref[1];
if (p.y === b.y || p.y === a.y) {
p.y += Number.MIN_VALUE;
}
if (p.y > b.y || p.y < a.y) {
return false;
} else if (p.x > a.x && p.x > b.x) {
return false;
} else if (p.x < a.x && p.x < b.x) {
return true;
} else {
mAB = (b.y - a.y) / (b.x - a.x);
mAP = (p.y - a.y) / (p.x - a.x);
return mAP > mAB;
}
}
};
function pathAnchorsInPoly (myPath, polyPts) {
var flag = false;
var all = [];
foreach(myPath.pathPoints, function (arg) {
if (RayCaster.pointInPoly(arg.anchor, polyPts) === false) {
all.push(false);
}
all.push(true);
});
flag = (all.indexOf(false) != -1) ? false : true;
if (flag === false) {
alert("NOT All Path Anchors are inside containing ellipse.");
} else {
alert("Yay! All Path Anchors are INSIDE the containing ellipse!");
}
return flag; // for use later (?)
}
if (app == "[Application Adobe Illustrator]" && app.documents.length > 0) {
app.coordinateSystem = CoordinateSystem.ARTBOARDCOORDINATESYSTEM;
var clr = new CMYKColor();
clr.cyan = 0;
clr.magenta = 100;
clr.yellow = 100;
clr.black = 0;
var doc = app.activeDocument;
try {
var m = doc.pathItems.getByName('mycir'); // my circle
var mp = doc.pathItems.getByName('mypth'); // my test path
} catch (e) {
alert("Put 2 paths into a document: a containing ellipse, name it 'mycir', and some random path- name it 'mypth'. Then run.");
return;
}
var pts = getPathPoints(m);
var bezPts = getBezierPath(pts);
// testing functions:
// markBezierPoints(bezPts);
// makePolygon(bezPts);
// foreach(bezPts, function(arg) {$.writeln(arg)});
pathAnchorsInPoly(mp, bezPts);
}
}
test();
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Sep 04, 2014
07:29 PM
So his (or her) process should be more like:
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var maxWidth = 7*72; //inches
var maxHeight = 7*72;
for(var i=docRef.pathItems.length-1; i>-1; i--){
var thisItem = docRef.pathItems;
if(thisItem.stroked == true && thisItem.strokeColor.spot.name == "CutContour"){
if(thisItem.width > maxWidth || thisItem.height > maxHeight){
thisItem.remove();
}
}
}
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Sep 04, 2014
12:53 PM
Point in polygon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia You need a programming mathematician's help for that one- It looks like it would be possible to get an approximate polygon of your ellipse (or any closed & whole bezier) and then check each single one of your path points in the groupItem's paths against it using the principles in the Wiki link above. I think to get the approximate polygon you'd make a function to put bezier points along the ellipse and choose only a few of them for the polygon.
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Sep 04, 2014
09:15 AM
1 Upvote
No idea why that was the case, but setting enabled = true seems to do the trick.
function dropdown2(win_location, win_width, h50, list2) {
var ww = new Window ("dialog");
var g = ww.add ("group");
var panel = g.add("panel", [0, 0, 300, 200]);
var dd = panel.add('dropdownlist',[4, 4, 290, 20],list2);
var sbar = g.add ("scrollbar", [0, 0, 20, 200]);
sbar.enabled=true;
ww.show();
}
var w = new Window ("dialog");
w.add("button", undefined, "asdads").onClick = function () {
dropdown2([200, 200], 200, 50, ["asdaf", "asdaf", "asdaf", "asdaf" ]);
};
w.show();
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Sep 04, 2014
08:00 AM
Shouldn't all those be double equals? == And I believe you can group them: if(docRef.pathItems.strokeColor == CC && (docRef.pathItems.width < 7 || docRef.pathItems.height < 7)){
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Aug 28, 2014
07:22 AM
To launch a script automatically you can use Autohotkey on windows or Spark Hotkey Manager for Mac. As for the other part, you'll need to elaborate with a screenshot or something, as it's a little obscure the way you describe.
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Feb 04, 2014
08:25 PM
I opened your file in Excel and it looked the way I expected it to. I opened it in Notepad and all of your text is in one line. I saved another CSV from my Excel (choosing Comma-separated Values csv, not the MSDOS ones or anything), and opened the new one in Notepad and the text was in columns & rows now. I must therefore advise that it is an issue with your text file. (O_o)
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Jan 30, 2014
10:48 PM
Okay, well, this all looks possible, at least- except one part- which is, what you're using to change the color for the background. I believe someone would have to replicate the Recolor Artwork feature to match the Pantone+ colors by including the entire list of all that swatch library's swatches with all their Lab color info in the script and doing an algorithm to match up your background color to the closest one.
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Jan 27, 2014
10:32 PM
I don't think you need to search for that, your desired feature is the Data Merge of Indesign. If you have indesign you can do all the names and save them as whichever format you want!
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Jan 25, 2014
08:38 AM
Thank you W_J_T and here is the place where I got my drawing from: http://forums.adobe.com/message/5819478#5819478 * I posted the latest update at the bottom on Jan 25 2014. The principles of this method are to draw by reading the string object and that;s how you can change colors and things by changing the eval-led objects and redrawing them with putting an updating function into OnDraw and hiding/showing the element to force the OnDraw. If you end up using this , I'd like to see some examples!
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