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Change color space

Oct 15, 2011 6:19 AM

Hi!

 

Is there any way to change a documents color space on an already open document in VBS?

I have tried "AiDocumentColorSpace" but this seems to be a read only value!?

 

Please help!

 

/Tommy

1143 Views   3 Replies   Latest reply: CarlosCanto, Dec 19, 2011 11:40 PM
 
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  • Muppet Mark
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    1. Muppet Mark,
    Oct 15, 2011 7:40 AM   in reply to fire_swe
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    Yep its a read only property… The only files you can assign a color space to are pre version 9 where you could have mixed space objects… You may have to copy the file contents to a new document although I've not tested that…

     
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    2. Larry G. Schneider,
    Oct 17, 2011 9:17 AM   in reply to fire_swe
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    Mark's option is the only one available. You will need to create a new document with the proper color space and move all Page Items to the new docuemnt.

     
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    3. CarlosCanto,
    Dec 19, 2011 11:40 PM   in reply to Larry G. Schneider
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    Hi guys, since the OP never bothered to come back for his answer, this answer is rather aimed to us. We can record a couple of actions to change the color mode of an open document, then use VBS (or perhaps AS, can any of you translate it?) to run those actions.

     

    changeColorModeActions.PNG

    'script must be run outside Illustrator, it can not run from the File->Scripts Menu
set iapp = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")
set idoc = iapp.ActiveDocument
colormode = idoc.DocumentColorSpace
 
 
if colormode = 1 then iapp.DoScript "colorModeCMYK", "Set 1", True
if colormode = 2 then iapp.DoScript "colorModeRGB", "Set 1", True
     
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