Please, pretty pleas with sugar on top add SaveAsCopy function to illustrator script. All i need to be happy is to bind a script that allows me to save a copy of specific AI art board(s) as PDF with presets. it is impossible to save copy of document without closing current AI file.
I work in print and that is the thing illustrator lack for me, one script command... saveCopyAs.
Why does it matters? because i have tons of print layouts with ton of PDF's to link on aforementioned plates, and i need to sometime go for 3 different export as pdf to get to last print layout... i save a lot of PDFs. Not to even mention small size pdf's that i need to send to clients. There are days that i make the same PDF 7 times before i end with client, and then i do like 2-3 more to have flexo print layout. And after that i have 8 more projects to do. Don't even get mi started on moving something 2mm left and going once after 9 projects and 9 layouts...
So when i have the change done, I want to be able hit saveAsCopy keybind script, then illustrator will nicely ask me if i want to update linked file on layout, i say yes, hit another saveascopy and he will ask me if i want to make an update on final layout for anilox roller, I say yes, hit save as copy, and I AM DONE. Now 9 more.
All that this will give mi is Save of time from saving all this files manually by clicking file->Save as Copy. And that is all i really want, the save in time on repeatable tedious action

I checked with macOS X Mojave, Illustrator24.3, and Yosemite, Illustrator CS6.

Below is a sculpt to create a new document, create a rectangle, select and copy, paste and cut. Try it first.

var doc = app.documents.add ();
var rect = doc.pathItems.rectangle (0, 0, 50, 50);
app.copy ();
app.paste ();
app.cut ();

After execution, the user can undo it.
The final process is "cut", but what appears in the menu is "undo paste".
Let's cancel it again. The second thing that appears is "undo cut".
Because of this, when you try to return to the pre-execution state, Illustrator almost always thinks a bit and ends with an error.

The development of ExtendScriptToolKit seems to be over, but we still need to continue using ExtendScript, so this bug cannot be overlooked.

This is a sincere request, so please fix it.

<in Japanese>

私はmacOSX Mojave, Illustrator24.3, そしてYosemite, IllustratorCS6で確認しました。

以下は、新規ドキュメントを作成、長方形を作成、選択してコピー、ペースト、カットするスクプリトです。まず実行してみてください。

var doc = app.documents.add();
var rect = doc.pathItems.rectangle(0, 0, 50, 50);
app.copy();
app.paste();
app.cut();

実行後、ユーザーは取り消しが可能です。
最後の処理は「カット」ですが、メニューに現れるのは「ペーストを取り消し」です。
もう一度取り消ししてみましょう。2番目に現れるのが「カットを取り消し」です。
これが原因で，実行前の状態まで戻そうとすると、ほとんどの場合Illusratorはすこし考え込み、そしてエラー終了します。

ExtendScriptToolKitの開発は終了してしまったようですが、それでも我々はExtendScriptを使い続ける必要があるので、この不具合は見過ごすわけにはいきません。

心からのお願いですから直していただきましょう。

I'm not a developer, just an ardent fan of the work that the guys at AstuteGraphics do to improve the functionality of Illustrator.

One of their products they introduced before Illustrator had recovery capabilities was a plugin called Autosaviour. It's a tool that can not only regularly save your files at a given interval but also create backup copies of them too.

I recently asked the team if it was possible to adjust the way backups get created by utilising the 'Save a copy' function so that the original file could remain intact whilst in the background periodic backups could be created. I was disappointed to find that it is not possible for them to do this.

Please make it possible for developers to call the save a copy function within their plugins and scripts.

I need to automate the language parameter from the Character panel on Illustrator. It is already available for most languages but it looks like the recent languages that have been added in Illustrator are not available for automation. We need to set this up to have the correct hyphenation in the text frames. For example, if we activate the hyphenation for illustrator files that contains Thai strings, it won’t hyphenate the strings correctly until we set the language.

The list available for automation can be found from the Illustrator scripting library on macOS (it contains everything we can use for automation with Illustrator).

You can find it if you follow these steps:
1/ Open Script Editor (installed by default on your Mac)
2/ CMD+SHIFT+L to open the Library
3/ Click on the + button and add Adobe Illustrator 2019 app (/Applications/Adobe\ Illustrator\ CC\ 2019/Adobe\ Illustrator.app/)
4/ Double click Adobe Illustrator 2019 to open the library
5/ Search for the language parameter in the library
6/ It will show the list available for automation (that is different from the list in the UI on Illustrator)

For example Thai, or Hebrew are missing for automation.

Hello Adobe,

I want to change the colormode of a swatch with javascript.
I do not want to change the document mode but I want to change specific swatches in my swatch library.

Now some of my swatches/colors are RGB spotcolors. I want to change them into CMYK spotcolor.

This is almost impossible now because spotColorKind is now read only :(

Now I have to:
- create new swatches with exactly the same colors and with different name
- attach new color to my pathitems
- delete old swatches
- rename swatches

I only wanted to change the colormode of the swatch......

Please make "simple" functions like this available. It would save a lot of code!