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

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.

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);

Create a text object, type some text, keep it selected and run the script:

activeDocument.textFrames[0].paragraphs[0].paragraphAttributes.firstLineIndent = 20;
alert(activeDocument.textFrames[0].paragraphs[0].paragraphAttributes.firstLineIndent);

activeDocument.textFrames[0].paragraphs[0].paragraphAttributes.firstLineIndent = 0;
alert(activeDocument.textFrames[0].paragraphs[0].paragraphAttributes.firstLineIndent);

You have two alerts saying 20, while the second one should show and actually set the first line indent value to 0 — and it does not.

Running a script to set the justification of text works perfectly for left and right, but no longer works for center. Putting the example script given in the latest Illustrator CC Scripting Guide, page 122, into a Script Editor visually compiles centre differently to left and right and only works if you remove or comment out the line justifying to center.

The AIAddToolData struct is still using char* for the title & tooltip members. I know it does some kind of localization, but that's really archaic when the rest of the SDK uses ai::unicode.

The Samples included with the SDK cannot currently be compiled on Windows unless MFC was installed as part of the Visual Studio installation procedure.

Making the Samples requires two small things:

1. Add the following include below the SDKDef.h include in VersionInfo.rc

include "verrsrc.h"

1. Change the "afxres.h" include in the .rc of all plugins to instead include "winuser.h"

Doing so will make MFC optional, and not required; ultimately, including 'afxres.h' is including the two headers outlined above so it's just introducing an unnecessary middle man who can be safely bypassed.

The below menu command notifiers do not fire when the export option is used:

kAIExportCommandPreNotifierStr "AI Command Notifier: Before Export"
kAIExportCommandPostNotifierStr "AI Command Notifier: After Export"

Other menu notifiers do fire, such as "AI Command Notifier: Before Save As" and "AI Command Notifier: After Save As"

Commands:
//menu Other Object\Isolate Selected Object
app.executeMenuCommand('enterFocus');

//menu Other Object\Exit Isolation Mode
app.executeMenuCommand('exitFocus');

Return error:
an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM').

This applies not only to isolation, but also to some other commands.

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.

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.

Export jpeg using script to specific dpi.

There are many missing feature that we can not handle using javascript scripting, also may be apple script.

1. Merge swatches via script
2. Suppress merge swatch conflict dialog via script or do it in the background by default value.