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1. Script selection/appearance modification causes error 8702

   I am using a script to change the appearance of an object (fill color of an ellipse shape). Since there is no way to access appearance properties directly (which would be lovely to get someday), I am using a known workaround with defaultFillColor on the selected document.

   app.activeDocument.selection = [item.obj];
   app.activeDocument.defaultFillColor = item.newCol;
   

   Unfortunately, the selection seems to leave Illustrator in a weird state, and any further script command (e.g. next iteration of the loop) fails with "Error 8702: there is no active document."

   This sometimes goes away if I use CPU instead of GPU preview, though not reliably. And the error is not thrown if there is no update to the fill color (i.e. the object already had the correct color).

   This is on version 30.2.1 and macOS 26.3 on apple silicon. I was successfully using the same script for years prior to a few weeks ago, so this might be a recent change. I also tested the latest Illustrator beta, and the error is still there.

   I am happy to share the script and illustrator file that trigger the error if needed.

   I am using a script to change the appearance of an object (fill color of an ellipse shape). Since there is no way to access appearance properties directly (which would be lovely to get someday), I am using a known workaround with defaultFillColor on the selected document.

   app.activeDocument.selection = [item.obj];
   app.activeDocument.defaultFillColor = item.newCol;
   

   Unfortunately, the selection seems to leave Illustrator in a weird state, and any further script command (e.g. next iteration of the loop) fails with "Error 8702: there is no active document."

   This sometimes goes away if I use CPU instead of GPU preview, though not reliably. And… more

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