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 problem, or any hints or tips if I do anything wrong. Should be quite an easy thing to fix for the Adobe team no? I remember I did not have this problem before your updates contained the corner radius feature..... (perhaps also the wrong forum as I have o idea about programming, scripts... so sorry for this

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 I have a method to listen for events and then draw annotations using the sAIAnnotatorDrawer api:

ASErr AnnotatorPlugin::Message(char* caller, char* selector, void* message)

I've registered a notifier for the kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier event:

sAINotifier->AddNotifier(fPluginRef, "AnnotatorPlugin", kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier, &fNotifySelectionChanged);

So, it seems using kAIArtSelectionChangedNotifier only notifies my plugin once the control points have finished moving?

Is it possible to be notified as the control points are still being moved i.e. as the mouse is dragged? Also, can I get the state of the in-progress curve being edited?

Any help is appreciated, thank you! 😊

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 object

Etc., 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 lower, but after updating to Illustrator 2021, the probability of this error increasing again has increased.

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#10991060

One 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 commands.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

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:

1. 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 be null.

Here an example where I used one single text frame item that is threaded with itself:

1. Re: [BUG] copying threaded text-frames. Laubender Mar 30, 2019 7:58 PM (in response to Laubender) https://forums.adobe.com/message/11004345#11004345

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( ACP )

ATTACHED:
BUG-with-nextFrame-of-objext-TextFrameItem.zip.txt

( To unzip the attached zip file rename it to *.zip first. )

AI 21.0.0 2017 Release

---------------------------------------- to reproduce

New Document (defaults: print, letter)

T for text tool, click in document, type "test text"

cmd-return to exit

in Color palette click anywhere in color bar to change text color

in Paragraph Styles palette, click the new style icon to create "Paragraph Style 1"

---------------------------------------- 1st run

run script "bugreport"

results:
fillColor: [CMYKColor]
strokeColor: [NoColor]

---------------------------------------- 2nd run

select the "test text" text

press "X" to change the color palette from fill to stroke

click anywhere in the color bar to give the text a colored stroke

in Paragraph Styles palette, select "Redefine Paragraph Style" from the menu

run script "bugreport"

results:
fillColor: [CMYKColor]
strokeColor: [CMYKColor]

---------------------------------------- 3rd run

double click on "Paragraph Style 1" in the Paragraph Styles palette to modify it

under Character Color, change the stroke to [None], and click OK

run script "bugreport"

results:
fillColor: [CMYKColor]
strokeColor: [CMYKColor]

The results are erroneous: the strokeColor should be [noColor] as it was in the first run.

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