I'm trying to use indexOf to see whether an element exists within an array. However, when I try to execute my script, it comes back saying "myLayers.indexOf() is not a function"
Here is some of my code:
for (var i = 0; i < myDoc.layers.length; i++) {
if (myLayers.indexOf(myDoc.layers[i]) != -1) {
myDoc.layers[i].remove();
}
}
I am getting an error with a script i have used before without any problems.The script updates the only image at the bottom of a single page PDF and saves the changed PDF in another folder.
It asks me to locate the folder of PDFs to be modified.It asks me to locate the folder where the modified PDFs will be saved.It asks me to select the new image that will be used.It will then update the image and resizes it and save the PDF in the specified folder.
I don't get this error on all PDFs but i get it at least once every 10 PDFs (and there are over a 1,000 PDFs).The error i get is this:
Error 1302:No such elementLine:27-> rip=doc.rasterItems[0].position;
I get this error regardless of whether the script is run in CS3 or CS5.
Additional info.I ran this script in CS3 and it worked. At a later date i ran another script on the folder of modified PDFs in CS5 that deleted any unnessesary elements outside the artboard, it selected All on the Artboard - then inversed the selection - and deleted any selected items followed by save and close.I have tried making sure the "new" image has the same name as the image being replaced but this made no difference.I am using Illustrator on Vista.
The script is below:
#target illustrator
function replaceImage() {
[code]....
Is there a method to return an array of paths in the order they were selected, instead of their descending z-index (default behaviour)?
I'm writing a script that "connects" the centers of currently selected objects through a stroked path, and I want it to follow the order in which I select the objects, regardless of the stacking order.
I've got areaText rectangles that were created by various means, and the 0 index is sometimes the top left, other times the bottom right. I need to do a lot of resizing/aligning/spacing/sizing. To script the movement of the top left point of each (or any point for that matter), I'm trying to clean up the sequence of points in each objects array of pathPoints so I can move pathPoint[0].anchor for each rectangle and be sure that the top left is moving, not some other random corner.
So, testing in script alone, and I came up with the following (don't laugh at how I called out the array), which works great in extendScript:
var testArray = new Array;
testArray.push({xVal: 5, yVal:0});
testArray.push({xVal: 0, yVal:-2});
testArray.push({xVal: 5, yVal:-2});
testArray.push({xVal: 0, yVal:0});
[code]....
Which throws an error "objPoints.sort is not a function"Unlike the JS only version, my AI script is trying to sort all of the points of all of of the textAreas, which I'll fix shortly so it sorts the 4 points of each object. The problem is that the script isn't sorting the points, but providing a useful error message instead.
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?
Can you access graph data through the scripting DOM?
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Say, i have a doc (from my client), which they inherited and enhanced for 10 years may be.
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First thing, getting the artboard's width :
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// 646.7358
Then i try to have a multiply factor to use
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// 185.54717397738
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The export command gets an error: Adobe Illustrator got an error: Can't get current document.
when it encounters the export command.
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
if not frontmost then activate
open inputFile as alias without dialogs
export current document to exportFile as PNG24 ¬
with options {class:PNG24 export options ¬
, resolution:300 ¬
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close current document saving no
end tell
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This is the masterpiece
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