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‎Mar 26, 2021
06:58 AM
Hi @Monika Gause , Sorry for the time it's taken to come back on this. So on one of the Catalina Macs, UTC was uninstalled and re-installed as part of a complete rebuild for a new user. This mac is running version 7.0.5 of UTC and experiences the font corruption. On my own Mac which is running Big Sur, I uninstalled UTC, then opened an artwork in AI. I obviously had no font management for that artwork but also I didn't experience the font corruption in Firefox. I have then reinstalled UTC up to the latest version of 7.0.10 and again opened some artwork files, and didn't have any font corruption.
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‎Mar 17, 2021
05:52 AM
Hi all, I'm wondering if anybody is experiencing anything similar to my studio's problem. In short, opening AI files causes fonts in a web browser to corrupt, as per the below screenshots: This issue is affecting Catalina 10.15, Big Sur 11.2, Illustrator 24.3. We also use Universal Type Client to manage fonts and have auto activation set when opening documents. We then set the AI preferences for UTC to close opened fonts when the document closes. I've searched a number of times on the web for anybody with similar issues and can't find anything, so I'm hoping someone here see's this and has experienced similar. For the Catalina based Macs we run UTC v7.0.5, for the Big Sur Macs we're running v7.0.7. Illustrator is all CC2020, with maybe some slight differences in versions. Fingers crossed and thanks in advance.
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‎Feb 23, 2021
01:24 AM
Hi @mixxeeff , I'm not sure about using a hotkey to run an Illustrator action, but in your Actions panel, if you choose 'Button Mode' from the flyout menu, your list of actions (within their containing folders) will convert to buttons. That way, running an action becomes a 'one-click' step. You can also add a colour to each action set for clearer visibility. I've set up all our production studio Illustrator scripts to work in this way and everyone loves the speed and simplicity.
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‎Oct 13, 2020
01:48 AM
Hi guys, So this works perfectly with my test document of one layer and one text frame. However, if I wanted it to work for a multi layer document across several text frames, what would I need to do? If @Silly-V or anyone else can point me in that direction it would be fantastic. Thanks very much!
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‎Oct 12, 2020
09:04 AM
1 Upvote
Thank you @Silly-V, absolute legend. You've saved me lots of pain.
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‎Oct 12, 2020
02:11 AM
Hi all, I have a script for Ai which will set the horizontal scale of text in a text frame to 100% when the text frame is selected. What I'd like to achieve is to only set the horizontal scale of one particular font in this text frame when there are several fonts included in the frame. For example, the following image shows characters in Helvetica at 50% as well as a country codes font also at 50% scaling. I'd like the oval country codes to be at 100% scaling. My script will set the whole frame to 100%. Image below and this is the script: function main () {
var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var itext = idoc.selection[0];
var itextInfo = itext.textRange.characterAttributes;
if(itextInfo.textFont.name = "myfontname") {
itextInfo.horizontalScale = 100;
}
}
main(); Thanks in advance.
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‎Jul 26, 2020
02:10 AM
Thanks for the reply Tom, I have posted in the Bugs section.
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‎Jul 26, 2020
12:34 AM
Thanks Tom for the reply. I will do.
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‎Jul 25, 2020
12:25 PM
Hi all, Not sure if this is a potential bug, or if something deliberate has been changed between CC2019 and AI2020 in terms of tracking applied to text. Only seems to occur when the text is aligned to the centre, set as point type and has tracking applied to it. We have artwork files created in CC2019. When opening one of these files in AI 2020, version 24.2.1 on either Mojave or Catalina, text that is set up with tracking, is point type (instead of area type) and centre aligned shows a significant movement to the right. movement to the right on the top lines in AI2020 As you can see from the attached .gif of the two files, there is one instance where there is no tracking applied on text, which is on the word "Helvetica" and this doesn't move at all between versions. This text is also left aligned. Has anyone noticed a similar issue? We work in an accuracy critical business where later versions of artwork are now being opened in AI2020 after we've upgraded from CC2019. To have text moving around from one version to another is potentially very dangerous for us if these movements aren't picked up by operators. I've tried hunting around preferences in both versions to hopefully find a solution but so far have come up short. If anyone has any ideas or suggestions it'd be great to hear. Thanks in advance.
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‎Jun 11, 2020
10:02 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks for the link. Just to confirm this is the same scripting guide as @CharuRajput posted earlier on in the thread. Thanks for all the responses everybody!
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‎Jun 11, 2020
10:00 AM
1 Upvote
Thanks @CarlosCanto for the thorough explanation.
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‎Jun 11, 2020
07:29 AM
1 Upvote
Thank you @Charu
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‎Jun 11, 2020
06:48 AM
1 Upvote
Seems like the current scripting reference is only effective up until version 17. Which isn't actually an issue for what I'm trying to achieve, so happy days!
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‎Jun 11, 2020
06:07 AM
Hi all, I'm trying to write into a Javascript to save back from the latest Ai2020 version 24.1.3 to CC2019. I can't seem to find an updated reference that works for "Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR19" There is a suggestion here: scripting-constants-compatibility but just upping the version number from an existing script which I use to save back to Ai8 doesn't work. I receive the following error: I've tried swapping "19" for "CC", as per the display in the save as dialog panel but to no avail. Code snippet is here: // Save with AI2019 compatibility
// AI2019 save options
var so = new IllustratorSaveOptions();
so.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR19;
so.pdfCompatible = true;
so.embedLinkedFiles = false;
so.embedICCProfile = true;
// save as 2019 overwriting 2020 version
doc.saveAs(File(originalDocPath + "/" + originalDocName + "_legacy.ai"), so);
app.activeDocument.close(); Does anyone have any ideas on the update reference for compatibility to 2019 please? Thanks.
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‎Apr 30, 2020
08:20 AM
3 Upvotes
Hi there, You should be able to use this: // The active document
var doc = app.activeDocument;
// The path of the original document
var originalDocPath = doc.path;
// The name of the original document
var originalDocName = doc.name;
// An array of all the layers in the active document
var allLayers = doc.layers;
// Get just the file name. Ignore the file extension .pdf and .ai
originalDocName = originalDocName.replace(/\.pdf|\.ai/gi, "")
{
// Setup pdf save options
var opts = new PDFSaveOptions();
// Use the preset named "XXX"
opts.pDFPreset = "your PDF preset name here";
// Save the document in the original folder using the original name with _LR suffix
doc.saveAs(File(originalDocPath + "/" + originalDocName + "_LR.pdf"), opts);
app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
} Obviously you'll need a Low Res PDF preset as just naming the file with _LR.pdf won't achieve that. And you can comment out the 'app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);' if you don't want your file to close after saving the PDF. That's just the way we do things with this script.
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