Simple Drop Shadow Action - make action active
I'm trying to create a drop shadow action for a specific ratio that will be used company wide. But each time I try to record it, it doesn't want to stay active. It's always grayed out and unusable.
Rinda Heide
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Found this, tried to reproduce.
If Effect > Stylize > Drop Shadow is called directly when recording an action with nothing selected — it won’t get recorded, Ai sees it as a change of the default settings for the effect (within the current session) and not the actual application of it.
If Insert Menu Item command from the Actions panel’s flyout menu is used when recording the action — it will record calling it, but won’t record the values used.So perhaps using graphic styles could be a better way. But then again, it’d require sharing the local library of styles.
There is another method — actions allow to paste a stored object on canvas... so, creating a dummy one with the proper shadow, adding it as a graphic style, restoring it with the action (to get its style added), removing it from the canvas, and then applying the style that is remaining in the Graphic Styles with the action... that’s a lot :)
