Illustrator Scripting :: Looping - How To Create And Lock A Set Of Path Items

Sep 19, 2012

The first loop grabs the geometries drawn in the current document and rotates it around itself creating duplicates. The second loop is supposed to circumvent more geometries around the newly created geometries.

But instead of creating a radiant pattern, this code builds a tower: for the second loop everytime it grabs the last drawn geometry instead of what is in the "Original"
 
for NumPaths = 1 to frontDocument.PathItems.count
set myPath = frontDocument.PathItems.item(NumPaths)
For index = 0 To 30
set newPath = myPath.Duplicate
call newPath.translate(100*sin(6.14* index/30),100*cos(6.14* index/30))
        
[Code] .......

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Illustrator Scripting :: How To Speed Up JavaScript Looping Through All Path Items

Dec 5, 2013

I have a very simple javascript for Illustrator that is intended to render all filled objects semi-transparent. It works nicely but for large documents with many objects this takes ages, even beyond the time it would take to do it manually.
 
I'm wondering if there is any way to improve this script so it works in a reasonable time for large files? I'm running Illustrator CS5 on a Windows 7 64-bit Intel Quadcore i5-2400 @ 3.10 GHz System with 12 GB of RAM and an AMD Radeon HD 6350 graphics. Would upgrading to CS6 significantly improve the speed? CPU load is only at 25%, but I guess javascript cannot be run in multiple threads with the Illustrator engine? Is there another scripting language that would allow me faster processing of that task in illustrator or is my code just poorly optimized?

with (app.activeDocument) {
if (pathItems.length > 0)
{
for (var g = 0 ; g < pathItems.length; g++)
{
if (pathItems[g].filled == true)
{
pathItems[g].opacity = 50;
}
}
}
}

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I'm trying to write a script that applies a single swatch to a single path item and repeat for every swatch that is currently contained in the swatch library. This script that I have written is only applying the last swatch in the swatch library to every path item on the page. Currently I'm more concered with getting each swatch that is currently in the swatch library to be applied at least once before worrying about applying the same patch to any extra number of patch items compared to the swatches.length.

// Apply every swatch library color to path items on a page
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doc = app.activeDocument;

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But if I try to get the name from an item colored 'Black' (which is set to Process Color, CMYK), then I'll need to do something else like:
 
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}
 
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I just got CS6, and I'm wondering how I access menu items using Javascript?Also, I'm looking at the CS6 JS reference, and it doesn't say whether app.activeDocument.selection is Read-Only. I would need this for my purposes in accessing the menu.The item I wanna access is Select > Same > Stroke Color. Seems simple enough.

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I'm trying to remove all hidden page items regardless of how many sublayers they are burried in. I wrote a snippet here that seems to only partly work. It removes all hidden page items unless two hidden items exist right after each other in the stacking order.
 
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I am trying to create a script to specify a percentage of the selected items you want to remove.Here is what I have so far.
 
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//---------- source code ----------
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  true, //[,changeFillPatterns]
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transMaskItem.translate(
100, //([deltaX]
100. //[,deltaY]
True, //[,transformObjects]
True, //[,transformFillPatterns]
True, //[,transformFillGradients]
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and similar thing happened. The item gets moved, but the object inside it doesn't.
 
How do I resize or translate an opacity mask along with the items inside it?

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What is the Javascript equivalent to this AppleScript?
 
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