How to find out the textframe color information?

[_Prabudass_]

Is it possible to get all the TextFrame color information(like CMYK,RGB values) in illustrator through javascript (or) through any other programming language? Kindly advice me.

[_Prabudass_]

Any one please.

[__simon_]

Yes.

Maybe you should RTFM before posting these 'I can't be bothered to read the documentation, so please do my thinking for me' type posts.

[_Prabudass_]

Thanks for your response. I searched in ScriptingGuide. But i could not find out the correct answer. So could you please provide an example to get the textframe color values. Kindly help me.

[Larry G. Schneider]

It's an attribute of a character so figure out how to set that.

[MarkWalsh]

If you're trying to get the fill of the Frame itself (not the text), then I believe you need to get the textPath of your textFrame, and you should be able to access the fillColor of the textPath. (note - you will have to check the 'kind' property of your textFrame to determine if it has a textPath)

[_Prabudass_]

Thanks for your response. I need to find out text color information like "Cyan" "Magenta" "Yellow" and "Black" percentage. I got the PathItem color information. But i am unable to get the text color information. Could you please help me.

[_Avip_Locost_]

If I have correctly understood question, then it easy:

that is on VBS:

'-------------------------------------------------
Dim objFSO 'As FileSystemObject
Dim objTextFile 'As Object

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")
Set mydoc = appRef.ActiveDocument
myselection = mydoc.Selection

Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set objTextFile = objFSO.CreateTextFile("c:\color.txt", True)

For Each ch In myselection(0).Characters
Select Case mydoc.DocumentColorSpace
Case aiDocumentCMYKColor
c = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Cyan, 2)
m = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Magenta, 2)
y = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Yellow, 2)
bk = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Black, 2)
objTextFile.Write ("C=" & c & " : " & "M=" & m & " : " & "Y=" & y & " : " & "B=" & bk & chr(10) & chr (13))
Case aiDocumentRGBColor
r = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Red, 2)
g = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Green, 2)
be = Round(ch.CharacterAttributes.FillColor.Blue, 2)
objTextFile.Write ("R=" & r & " : " & "G=" & g & " : " & "B=" & be & chr(10) & chr (13))
End Select
Next
objTextFile.Close
'-------------------------------------------------------

script create txt file on C: and write a color of every character in selected frame

[_Prabudass_]

Thanks for your help. Thats only i need. But i could not find out the spot color information from that code. Kindly help me to get the spot color information(Just spot color found or not is enough in the CharacterAttributes).

And also is it possible to find out the text object information like PATTERN, GRADIENT and BRUSHED objects.

[_Prabudass_]

Anyone please help me.