Illustrator (Desktop) SDK/Scripting Issues
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Live Effect process loses spot color info in single spot color Raster
In a Live Effect, a kRasterArt element, which is a raster of a single spot color, loses color information between kSelectorAIEditLiveEffectParameters and kSelectorAIGoLiveEffect.
This especially becomes a problem when removing the Effect from the element.
Reproducible steps:
1. Rasterize an element with a spot fill, no stroke
2. Apply 'Outer Glow' Effect
3. Save, close, and reopen the document
4. Remove 'Outer Glow' EffectI've copied the TwirlFilter sample code from the 2024 SDK, called it TestFilter and simplified the code. It has only been built and run on macOS.
It demonstrates the color loss between these 2 selectors through…3 votes -
AIArtStyleParser->CreateNewStyle not working in Illustrator 28.7 with SDK Build 130 and 709
AIArtStyleParser->CreateNewStyle return 0 (no error) but also the pointer to the new AIArtStyleHandle is invalid.
Also AIArtStyleParser->NewPaintFieldStroke doesn't work.It worked in previous Illustrator Beta releases with SDK Build 130 (April 2024)
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Email newsletter for third-party developers
Could Adobe please offer an email newsletter updating third-party plugin developers of changes that may affect or even break their plugins? It's helpful that there is a "known issues" web page, which may or may not identify problems known only to Adobe, but rather than every small developer checking this page every day, perhaps someone at Adobe could send one message to all subscribed developers. Too often, changes quietly happen and developers must scramble to help each other.
One recent example is AI 28.1 corrupting some 28.0 preference files, and a major example would be when Mac AI 25.1 required…
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Install new tools in toolbox by default
When a user adds a new third-party plugin, its tools should be added to the toolbox, where users expect to find it, rather than hidden in the drawer, which many users don't even know about. Hiding new tools creates frustration for users and extra support hassle for developers.
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check a keyboard key state in SDK
I often need a way to check if a specific keyboard key is currently pressed. For example, while a tool is being dragged, allow users to press the 'W' or 'E' key as they would a modifier like Shift or Alt/Option.
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Change Adobe PDF settings without creating a PDF file
Does anyone know if there is a way to change Adobe PDF settings without saving the current file into a PDF file? More specifically, is there a way to turn on/off the "Preserve Illustrator Editing Capabilities" option using C++ SDK?
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[SDK Feature Request] Annotator option to draw selection annotation last.
There is no option to draw the selection annotation last. Filled shapes and image annotations always block the selection annotation. See images for what i mean.
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More notifiers for live effects
Ai provides a live effect notifier that triggers when an object is scaled, but not when it’s moved. Same problem with rotating — the absence of these does not allow to recalculate effects properly, like one when an object with a shadow is rotated, and a user wants to rotate the shadow with the object (there is a quite popular request about this one already — https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/32468149-effects-do-not-rotate-drop-shadow-or-scale-e-g)
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I'm a graphic design student, my work and projects depend on Adobe Illustrator. The program does not run on my new Windows 11 Surface Pro X
Adobe Illustrator for devices with ARM-64 Processors (i.e. Surface Pro X)
1 voteThis device can’t run desktop Ai :(
There are some explanations and a workaround in comments below.
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Add ability to retrieve text on path options via C++ API
Currently, it is not clear or not possible how we can get the current text on the corve element's baseline and effect settings.
Make them accessible via some API.1 vote -
Allow C++ SDK to load swatch library (ase) from filepath
Currently, with ExtendScript, we're able to load a swatch library from a filepath and show its panel. In the C++ SDK, we're only able to open a library with the OpenNthLibrary function from the SwatchLibrariesSuite.
It would be nice, similar to ExtendScript, to be able to load an .ase from a filepath and open the panel.
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Executing Extendscript/Javascript from the C++ API
As far as I know there is no possible way to execute an Extendscript via the C++ API.
In InDesign we can do so by providing the script as a string and fetching simple output results.Our customers can customize our Plugins by providing their own script in our custom scripting language. Unfortunately our language does not cover all use cases and needs to be constantly expanded. With support for Extendscript/Javascript execution from the C++ API we could circumvent the problem and give the users a lot of flexibility and power.
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Expose 'Export Selection as' functionality
Without this functionality in the SDK, we have to copy the selection to a new document, export, and close the temporary document. Would it be possible to expose the export selection functionality to avoid these steps?
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Add documentation for exporting Windows Metafile (WMF)
There's currently a hidden parameter 'parm' that is required to export as WMF in kAIExportDocumentAction. Please document what this is for and what value is required.
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Close swatch library
Would it be possible to add the ability to close a swatch library panel through some sort of handle?
There are cases where we have multiple swatch libraries open and would like to close one/some of them upon some event.
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When art is renamed, no notifier is sent
In CC2019, at least two notifiers should result from renaming art: kAIArtPropertiesChangedNotifier & kAIArtObjectsChangedNotifier, but neither is sent.
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Add 'Convert to Shape' to the menu command notifier list
Please add the menu option: Object->Shape->Convert to Shape to the menu command notifiers list. (I've noticed other menu commands that also need to be added, but I only care about this one).
I'm using Illustrator CC v.23.0.3 on Windows 10 Pro 64-bit.
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C#/ .NET api
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.
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Access to underlying Illustrator object handles via scripting
The biggested pain point when implementing scripting support for plugins is that if you want to add objects that interact with built-in Illustrator script objects (LiveObjects) like Layers, Documents or PageItems. While it's possible to correctly parse whether you're being passed the correct scripting object (e.g. a Layer and not something else) you can't actually determine the handle for the specified object; that lives inside the ScriptingSupport.aip and has no public API.
Perhaps a small suite could be added that provides methods like this:
AIAPI AIErr (GetDocumenttHandle) (long hObject, AIDocumentHandle& outHandle);
AIAPI AIErr (GetLayerHandle) (long hObject, AILayerHandle& outHandle);…15 votes -
kAINamedStyleListChangedNotifier is not emitted when a Graphic Style is updated
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.
9 votes
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