Illustrator (Desktop) SDK/Scripting Issues
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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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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.
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GraphicStyle Aspect 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 !
Loïc5 votes -
[BUG] Extend script via Javascript document.importFile broken between CC2017 and CC2018 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.
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Scripting Bug: importFile() no longer works in CC2018 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);
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firstLineIndent can’t be set to zero 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.
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Isolate/Unisolate commands 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.
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Justification bug, cannot set 'center' in v24.2 using AppleScript 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.
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Opacity Mask Transparency / Opacity Mask - In layers pallet page item names look different with masks (underline) and opacity masks (dashed). It would be great if you could add this to properties of the page item like mask: none, opacity mask or mask. Identifying these objects is even harder then Envelopes which can only be identified by identifying as plugin object. Worst case putting info in the tag propery would be better then nothing when cresating it. I do not believe a opacity mask can be identified through any form of SDK/Script which makes identifying raster images in the file impossible.…
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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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Unicode support for tool names & toolips 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.
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Update Samples to not require MFC 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:
- Add the following include below the SDKDef.h include in VersionInfo.rc
include "verrsrc.h"
- 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.
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Bug: Before and After Export Notifiers Do Not Fire When Export As is Used From the Menu 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"
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Rotate / scale sensitivity In the recent version of Illustrator, I have severe problems with the simple task of rotating and scaling objects. The distanse I need to hold my selector/cursor from the object, relative to the indication I need to know weather I'm about to rotate, scale, or even add radius to a corner is far to sensitive for me. And with a "mouse-hand"/ or pen hand (not sure if thats the right term in English) it get quite annoying. I always have to zoom in quite a lot to do this simple and frequent operation. Not sure if anyone else have this…
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Updating annotation drawings as bezier control points are dragged Hello,
I'm working on an Illustrator plugin to help visualise bezier curve continuity. Screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/rxgqDJL.png
I wanted to ask if there's a way to update artwork annotations as the user drags a bezier path control point? Currently my plugin only updates the annotation drawing once you let go.
I assume this is possible because Illustrator seems to be able to do it for showing useful information such as alignment as you edit curves.
Some extra technical details in case it helps... :)
I started this project using the Annotator example project from the sdk as a starter.
In my plugin…
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an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM') I get this error too often on an irregular basis.
Do something.
At the very least, please return the correct cause of the error as to what caused the error.createOutline (),
Move () for each objectEtc., this error of the title is occurring too much during loop processing with for or while.
I've come to hate Illustrator anymore.
Please give the correct information to this error.
I want to deal with it.This error has been the same since at least Illustrator CC 2014.
I thought that the frequency of errors occurred in Illustrator CC 2017 was considerably…3 votes -
Illustrator 25.2 missing scriptability Info.plist entry Illustrator's Info.plist file no longer has an entry for
NSAppleScriptEnabled. That means normal attempts to open its scripting dictionary fail.3 votes -
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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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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Last frame in a story: textFrameItem.nextFrame is not null Hi together,
the value of nextFrame of the last textFrameItem in a story should always be null. Otherwise you could thread the outport of a text frame item with the inport of the same text frame item.And indeed that's the case!
See details in this thread at the Adobe Illustrator Scripting Forum:
- Re: [BUG] copying threaded text-frames. Laubender Mar 30, 2019 7:42 PM (in response to Laubender) https://forums.adobe.com/message/11004207#11004207
Since this IS POSSIBLE it creates a rather strange text composition in the affected story. So my suggestion: nextFrame of the last threaded text frame item in a story should always…
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