Bug report:
Passing a JavaScript file (alias) to "do javascript" in Illustrator 2020, fails with the error "JavaScript code was missing".

Also, if using a JavaScript string for "do javascript" and passing a file to "with arguments", it will be a missing File object in JavaScript.

Expected behavior:
As with Illustrator 2019, it is executed when a JavaScript file is passed. If a file is passed "with arguments", it becomes an existing File object.

Japanese:
Illustrator 2020でdo javascriptにファイルを指定できない

バグ内容：
Illustrator 2020でAppleScriptのdo javascriptにJavaScriptファイル（エイリアス）を渡すと「JavaScript code was missing」とエラーが起きて終了する。

また，do javascriptにJavaScript文字列を使い，with argumentsにファイルを渡すと，JavaScriptでは行方不明のFileオブジェクトになる。

期待される動作：
Illustrator 2019までと同じように，JavaScriptファイルを渡すと正常に実行される。with argumentsにファイルを渡したときは存在するFileオブジェクトになる。

Currently, you can ask Illustrator what layer is selected, but if a user has more than one layer selected, it won't give a list or array of all selected layers. It will still just give you one layer. So many scripts I write have to do with changing properties of multiple layers like batch renaming or batch recolouring. The workaround is to ask the end user to lock all layers they don't want to be affected. It would be much more natural for them to just select the layers they want to be affected.

Hi, I am a plugin developer, and there is a lot of features we are missing in Illustrator scripting that can be done manually in Illustrator. This is the one feature. Please add this feature so that we have some method or property to make the object as a key object to perform "Align to Key Object" operation via script.

Currently it appears only 1 appearance fill is available via scripting, and Illustrator spits out the value of whichever one is selected. What I'd like to be able to do, is loop through the appearances of layers for example, record those attributes(including layer opacity and blending modes) and apply those to fills within a single shape. As there are many more stacked attributes within appearances, it may not be this simple, but it'd be much appreciated.

Lots of obvious variables are missing from each type of item. I've not tested exhaustively so I've no doubt there'll be other examples, but here are a few I've recently run up against;

• fillColor and strokeColor are entirely missing from both text and group items.
  where a path has multiple fills or strokes, you can't select which one is referenced, and the rest are inaccessible.
  arrow heads
  effects (eg. I'd like to be able to access properties of a 3D effect)
  graphic styles (reference, rename, create, remove, edit)

In a panel I would like to receive events from the host app - in this case AI.

Please provide events for
- selection changed
- layers added/changed
- items added (items of any kind)
- items deleted
- etc

Current workarounds: polling (setTimer) for changes...thats far from ideal.

The current situation is more than sad (not regarding the lack of documentation).

I'd really value the ability to extend illustrator with c#.

I know adobe is cross platform, but surely theres enough of a windows user base to make this beneficial.

If you hold ALT and drag some art into a Graphic Style, it updates, but the notifier is not sent. This has been happening since at least the original CC. It used to work before that.

AIAnnotationDrawerSuite::DrawText() takes an ai::UnicodeString, but when you pass it non-Latin1 characters, you just get the box character. I suspect that if I passed Japanese to the Japanese version of Illustrator, the characters would display correctly, but it'd useful if you could do it regardless of Illustrator version.

We are just starting to add translations of our plugin and currently AI tool tooltips & annotation text have to be kept as Latin1 or we run into trouble.

Why are Scripting Guides/References password protected now?

many times we need to copy/paste sample scripts to help new users in the forums.

Please remove protection.

thanks
Carlos

Bring back the old scripting forums, the new "Community" forums are a joke. It's totally unintuitive and impossible to find anything scripting related as its all thrown in with general user stuff. Looks like all the money has been spent on "Badges" when all we want is easy to find help. Looks like all the historical data has mostly been removed as well so that's bad if you are looking for something someone may have answered in the past. Big step backwards...

In CC2019, at least two notifiers should result from renaming art: kAIArtPropertiesChangedNotifier & kAIArtObjectsChangedNotifier, but neither is sent.

Hello,

I develop a plugin where I need to create/update/modify graphic style and/or Aspect for graphic item.
I try many solutions, search on the web but for the moment it's not possible.

Could you please add support for creating/editing/deleting graphic style and aspect ?
It's very important for me ! And I think many developpers can be interesting with this features.

Thanks a lot !
Loïc

Currently this is producing an error in CC2018 Illustrator on Mac

var newFile = new File('/tmp/sample.rtf');
app.activeDocument.importFile(newFile, false);

Works correctly in CC2017.

importFile() worked fine in CC2017, now in CC2018 it throws an "Illegal Argument" error.

here's a small JavaScript to test. Open any document or create a blank file before running the script

var f = File('c:/temp/Example File.pdf'); // to test, add a path to a valid file in your system

var idoc = app.activeDocument; // have any document open

idoc.importFile(f, false);