Illustrator Scripting :: Expand And / Or Collapse Layers?
Mar 4, 2013Whenever I open a file, Layers are randomly expanded in the Layers palette.
Is there a way to run a script that collapses and/or expands all layers?
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Illustrator :: Cannot Expand Layers
Oct 8, 2013For a number of documents I inherited from someone else, I'm having trouble expanding layers. The topmost layers appear, show proper thumbnails, and are named appropriately. However, there is no little "disclosure triangle" or whatever that thing is called that allows you to expand the layer and see sublayers and items. I've tried duplicating this behavior with other documents and with a new document, but the problem only occurs with these certain files.
The files were created in v13 of AI, and I'm using v17 (CC) to open them.
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[Code]....
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