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1. Larry G. Schneider,

Jan 27, 2012 1:28 PM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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It's been a bug for six versions now and I don't see any urgent action on Adobe's part to correct it. Sorry

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2. CarlosCanto,

Jan 27, 2012 2:22 PM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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look here for a possible solution

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4094904

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3. SuperMacGuy,

Mar 7, 2012 6:17 AM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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My solution is to use GUI scripting to fake a menu item click. What a farce though! I can NOT believe how the Ai team could let this *vital* function be unscriptable for 10 years! I just posted (probably the 3rd time) in the bug report area about fixing it. I hope ANYONE who also needs this function will post a bug report and demand this be fixed asap.

Here's the web addy for bug report:

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

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4. Mike Sofa,

Mar 7, 2012 1:05 PM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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Color mode can be changed using an action via the "Insert Menu Item..." command in the panel fly-out menu. An F-Key can be assigned to the Action so it is a single keystroke function.

Or, the Document Color Mode can have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it. That's how I do it. Cmd-Opt-R changes to RGB for me.

Hope this helps.

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5. SuperMacGuy,

Mar 8, 2012 10:57 AM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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Thanks Mike but no that doesn't help at all.

I had an action that called "Doc Color:CMYK" and I was using (Applescript) "do script" to call that action. But it fails randomly/sporadically; specifically it said something like "could not complete the action because it is currently playing". There is another thread here about this issue, that person was using JS I think. They had no real resolution to the problem either.

I tried attaching an F key and then a different keyboard shortcut to that and also calling System Events to "do keystroke <whatever>" but that was also failing or not getting called consistently either.

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6. Larry G. Schneider,

Mar 8, 2012 11:10 AM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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The times I have run into this same problem of the action still running is when it remains highlighted in the Action panel. Have you tried serializing the actions using one for the doc color change and another for a close/save so the second is the highlighted action? Don't know if it will work but it might. Calling doScript won't work in ExtendScript; only AS or VB.

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7. CarlosCanto,

Mar 8, 2012 11:24 AM in reply to Larry G. Schneider

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doScript doesn't work when called from the menu, it needs to run "outside" illustrator, in Windows we double click on the *.vbs file to run. On a mac...I don't know.

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8. Mike Sofa,

Mar 8, 2012 12:13 PM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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Sorry I wasn't clear. All I was trying to say is that you can quickly change the Documnet Color Mode without using scripts at all.

Assigning an F-Key to an Action, or a keyboard shortcut to a Menu Item, don't require the use of a script to be implemented.

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9. CarlosCanto,

Mar 8, 2012 12:25 PM in reply to Mike Sofa

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Hi Mike, yes that is possible, the OP wanted to incorporate that into a script, probably to do something else afterwards.

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10. SuperMacGuy,

Mar 9, 2012 12:31 PM in reply to SuperMacGuy

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Yeah, my project for this week was to convert over 300,000 files. I think it's gonna take 45+ days to run at the rate it's going.

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