Illustrator (Desktop) SDK/Scripting Issues
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Using method duplicate() on a group of threaded text frame items will lose threading
Hi together,
if we duplicate a group of threaded text frame items to a different Illustrator document the story's threaded text frame items will not be threaded anymore in the target document.If you duplicate the group in the same document the threaded text frame items remain threaded.
All details here at Adobe Illustrator Scripting Forum:
[BUG] copying threaded text-frames.
Silly-V Mar 22, 2019 9:30 AM
https://forums.adobe.com/message/10991060#10991060One has to rethread the text frame items in the target document.
That should not be necessary.No issue if we copy and paste grouped and threaded text frame items using the menu…
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I can't find to fireworks cs6 If you have published a software that works differently in the past,You must have the download link in website
I can't find to fireworks cs6 If you have published a software that works differently in the past,You must have the download link in website
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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.
2 votes -
Export jpg using script to specific dpi
Export jpeg using script to specific dpi.
3 votes -
Wish Applescript could create more extensive dialog boxes in Illustrator.
It would be great to be able to create dialogs with radio buttons, check boxes etc., as can currently be created with Applescript in InDesign.
2 votes -
Adjust dashes to corner and path ends via scripting
I have dashed lines in my drawing and want to align dashes to corners and path ends. No problem in the Illustrator stroke menu. There are two buttons with dashed lines on it. But there is no script command to do this.
Please add script command for adjust dashes.
5 votes -
[BUG] Error during evaluation of conditional (ternary) operator
The script in the Illustrator produces an error during evaluation of a conditional expression that includes a nested conditional expression without parenthesis.
This breaks JavaScript optimization tools e.g. Google Closure Compiler.
Scenario:
alert(true ? true ? 1 : 2 : 3);Expected:
Standard dialog with message: "1".Actual:
Dialog with message "Error 25: Expected: :."Workaround:
alert(true ? (true ? 1 : 2) : 3);System info:
Illustrator Version: 23.0.1
OS: OS X
Version: 10.14
System Architecture: x643 votes -
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.
10 votes -
Edit Appearances with Scripting
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.
21 votes -
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 -
import graphic styles from file or library
with javascript, there is no way to import graphic styles from libraries or files. there is a way to open ai documents as graphic style libraries but then there is no script access to that library.
currently what i have to do is have an ai file with objects with graphic styles assign to them. with my script i open that file, select the objects, copy them, close the file, switch documents, paste objects, delete objects.
this can take a while and it is a very ugly solution. ideally there should be something as simple as importGraphicStylesFromFile(File)
or at least …
4 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 -
Please add feature for to make object as key object via script to perform align operations.
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.
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CC2019 CoordinatePrecision2 in Preferences
When doing operations on small vector objects I found that the precision was weird.
After checking the Preferences files I found that the key
plugin/SVGFormat/CoordinatePrecision was set to 3 (like in CC2018 were it works fine)But also found a new key:
plugin/SVGFormat/CoordinatePrecision2 set to 1!After closing Illustrator and updating that value to 3 it works again.
I didn't see any mention of that change in any docs.
Is "CoordinatePrecision2" the new value from CC2019? and "CoordinatePrecision" deprecated?
Thanks!
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Unicode support for annotation text
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.
13 votes -
kATEDocumentResourceChangedNotifier not sent when character/paragraph styles are changed
According to the documentation for kATEDocumentResourceChangedNotifier, it is supposed to be "Sent when ATE document resources, such as named style, have changed."
I have never found this to be true, in any version since the ATE was added. This has always been a serious pain point, because we build small previews of text styles and we have to rebuild them every time we open a UI that shows them, because we have no way of knowing if they have changed (or if they even still exist, or any have been added!).
Since it's never been sent before, there can't be…
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Add Javascript API for swatches functionalities
There are many missing feature that we can not handle using javascript scripting, also may be apple script.
- Merge swatches via script
- Suppress merge swatch conflict dialog via script or do it in the background by default value.
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addDocumentNoUI methods argument not selectable.
1.Your version of Adobe Illustrator
Illustrator ver.21 or later.2.The steps you were taking when you experienced the issues
When we run addDocumentNoUI method, we can set startupPreset.
However, It always sets "Web" preset.3.Your expected result
When we select "Art & Illustration" document open with appropriate preset.4.Your actual result
All the time we got a document made with "Web" preset.Here is a sample code of NoUI scripting.
var dc = app.documents.addDocumentNoUI("Art & Illustration");
//add some objects
dc.saveNoUI(File("~/Desktop/testNoUI.ai"));
dc.closeNoUI();After run it and open in Illustrator, we will find it used Web preset.
We want to choose appropriate…9 votesResolved (Comments Open) ·
AdminRama
(Mgr, Software Quality Engineering, Adobe Illustrator)
responded
var dc = app.documents.addDocumentWithDialogOption(“Art & Illustration”, false);
//add some objects
dc.saveAs(File(”~/Desktop/testNoUI.ai“));
dc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);Above script works for creating, saving and close the document without UI. The document preset is localized, if you are using locale other than english, you should pass the localized name of preset to addDocumentWithDialogOption method.
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Align/Distribute support for AppleScript
It would be great if we could have support for Align/Distribute in AppleScript. I believe Illustrator's UI functionality in this area is the same as InDesign, so using the exact same terminology would be excellent.
A little nit—AppleScript is one word, not two, so that needs to be changed in the "Category" choices in this forum. Thanks!
5 votes -
Allow scripts (AppleScript, Javascript) to retrieve a full list of all selected layers
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.
25 votes
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