Illustrator Scripting :: Continue A Script In Photoshop
Apr 5, 2013
I need to write a script that export artboards as PSD then open these files in Photoshop in order to continue the processing.
So here´s basically the concept:
#target illustrator
...body of the code to be executed in Illustrator, concluding with the document.exportFile (...) method; //it´s perfect up here. It generates the PSD properly.
if (app.activeDocument.artboards.length == 1){ //if the Ai File had only one artboard then I know only 1 PSD file was exported. So I need to open this document and continue in Photoshop
...execute this first code in Photoshop.
};
else
if (app.activeDocument.artboards.length > 1){
...execute this second code inn Photoshop
};
The problem is. How it could change the target application in the middle of the script? (this case, inside an IF loop)?
I tried to read about BridgeTalk but perhaps I did not understand it right. Should I send the code portion as a "message" to Photoshop?
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Dec 18, 2012
I'm try to automate the importing of the Varaible and datasets into my graphs via Scripting, but the ImportVaraibles() function doesn't seem to work. Here is my Script, mostly copied from the example script provided with Illustrator (CS5). And, this works manually, using the file names in the script, via Load Variable Library
Set appRef = CreateObject(strIllistratorVersion)
'Open the file and import the datasets
Set docRef = appRef.Open(strTemplate & "200-500.ai")
'docRef.Datasets.RemoveAll
docRef.Variables("Yearbook").Delete
Here is the problem, after I delete the previous library, then this next line, right from the example, does nothing
The script then exits with 'No Datasets in this document'
docRef.ImportVariables (strXMLFolder & "Lumber_200-500.xml")
'appRef.DoJavaScript "alert('Template:" & strTemplate & strRange & ".ai | XML file:" & strXMLFolder & "" & objFile.Name & "^')"
If (appRef.Documents.Count > 0) Then
Set docRef = appRef.Documents(1)
[Code]....
If I remove that delete line, the script runs, but just uses whatever Variables I had last loaded, not the XML file.
It's simply not loading. What do I need to do to get it to load?
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var doc = app.activeDocument;
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[Code] .....
This code I created exports my current Ai document as a PSD with set options. It also names the new file what it is called in Ai.
How can I call the created file and open it directly in Photoshop? Keep in mind I would be working on multiple files, so file names would change every time I ran this Export Script.
I could call a specifically named file and open that, but that's not what I need this script to do. I just need it to open the newly created PSD file.
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Say, i have a doc (from my client), which they inherited and enhanced for 10 years may be.
It's "supposed" to be in millimeters, but artboardRect gives me those values :
-0.27880000000005
436.191388980878
646.457
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This is the masterpiece
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