In Adobe Illustrator, is there a way to check the Overprint Preview status (it looks like Overprint Preview is a property of the document) through a script? I have tried catching an error if I try to re-enable it, however that does not work.   try { app.executeMenuCommand('ink'); alert("on"); } catch (e) { alert("already enabled"); }   ... View more

What's the weird logic in ExtendScript's GrayColor definition?  JavaScript Object Reference grayColor.gray description: “The tint of the gray. Range: 0.0 to 100.0, where 0.0 is black and 100.0 is white.” We know that in Illustrator grayscale 0 is white and vice versa.  If you want to create white fill:    point.fillColor = new GrayColor(); point.fillColor.gray = 0;         ... View more

After you execute the “FlattenTransparency” command on a selected object, normally that object remains selected. However, in the following case, two objects, left and right, form a group that will be selected after the script completes. The script pre-fills arrayNoFill, which contains one right clip group. Consequently, I expected that Flatten Transparency would not affect other objects. Why is this happening?         var arrayNoFill = []; ... alert("Found " + arrayNoFill.length + " unfilled clipping mask(s)."); // found 1 alert('active layer: ' + doc.activeLayer.name); // at this point nothing selected for (var i = 0; i < arrayNoFill.length; i++) { arrayNoFill[i] = true; } #include "../path/flatten_transparency.jsx"         For some reason at this point the green shape is also selected and it makes group with the Clip Group on the right. Here is an action string I found somewhere on the forum which I use here to flatten transaprenty:    "/version 3 /name [ 7 466c617474656e ] /isOpen 1 /actionCount 1 /action-1 { /name [ 20 466c617474656e205472616e73706172656e6379 ] /keyIndex 0 /colorIndex 0 /isOpen 1 /eventCount 2 /event-1 { /useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0 /internalName (adobe_selectAll) /localizedName [ 10 53656c65637420416c6c ] /isOpen 0 /isOn 1 /hasDialog 0 /parameterCount 0 } /event-2 { /useRulersIn1stQuadrant 0 /internalName (ai_plugin_flatten_transparency) /localizedName [ 20 466c617474656e205472616e73706172656e6379 ] /isOpen 0 /isOn 1 /hasDialog 1 /showDialog 0 /parameterCount 5 /parameter-1 { /key 1920169082 /showInPalette 4294967295 /type (integer) /value 75 } /parameter-2 { /key 1919253100 /showInPalette 4294967295 /type (unit real) /value 300.0 /unit 592342629 } /parameter-3 { /key 1869902968 /showInPalette 4294967295 /type (boolean) /value 1 } /parameter-4 { /key 1869902699 /showInPalette 4294967295 /type (boolean) /value 1 } /parameter-5 { /key 1667463282 /showInPalette 4294967295 /type (boolean) /value 1 } } }"   It turns out this action has adobe_selectAll – how to properly remove it from there without snagging the extra?     ... View more

In extend script, is the active layer the selected layer in the layers palette or not necessarily? In the document there was an active layer on the reference newLayer (with name Layer 1 copy). Then a temp layer was created on top. After working with the temp layer, it is shown in the layers palette as highlighted in blue - it is the active layer.  Now we need to activate the previous layer newLayer again. To do this, I lock and hide the temp layer, and do: doc.activeLayer = newLayer; But even with the subsequent app.redraw();, the layer palette looks like newLayer is an inactive layer.   ... View more

  You see a group that consists of: on the left is a regular rectangle, on the right is a clipping mask, in which the mask is the same rectangle as on the left, and inside the mask are three rectangles (squares): white, above it orange, and above the orange white with a blue border. Simple, right? The question is equally simple, how many groups are there from a scripting perspective? It would seem that the general group and the clipping group are just two groups. But Illustrator finds three groups. Let's simplify and ungroup the outer group. Now we have two separate objects: a rectangle on the left and a clipping mask (group) on the right. So there's one group, and Illustrator will agree with us on that. Question: where does the third group come from in the first case? ... View more

Strangely, an error appears when calling an action from a script. It was reported here that the error can occur due to wrong action name or if the action is selected. The reasons given have been double-checked and still this error. Perhaps there is some other reason?   At the same time, launching this action from the action bar works without any issues.  p.s.  bugs are popping out of every crevice ... View more

Using the hotkey for Eyedropper tool with the Text tool active and text selected replaces the text with “i”. Is there any trick to invoke the Eyedropper tool with a hotkey so that the selected text remains selected?      ... View more

Is it possible to find a problem here? First, a spot color is created and assigned to the global variable spotWhite, which is used further in the wrapper script. But the problem is that if this color is not in the ai file, then everything is ok, but if such a spot is already in the file, then I get an error.       // CustomSpot.jsx var spotColor; var spotWhite; if (app.documents.length > 0) { var doc = app.activeDocument; for (var i = 0; i < doc.spots.length; i++) { if (doc.spots[i].name === "W") { spotColor = doc.spots[i]; break; } } if (!spotColor) { ... // creating new spot } else { alert('the color is present'); spotWhite = spotColor; } } // wrapper file #target Illustrator #include "CustomSpot.jsx" main(); function main() { ... /* in case there was no color W, everything works as expected but when there is color W in the swatches it doesn't work */ item.fillColor = spotWhite; // error ... }     Got around this error by first deleting an existing spot with that name, but that doesn't explain the error shown, which looks like a bug.         ... View more