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Muppet Mark replied to Symbol to be placed in eps file

"If you have just one image to place this on and the symbol is in the same document… then sure just add an instance of it and position it…  "

in Illustrator Scripting 1 replies
11 hours ago
Muppet Mark replied to Script that resizes canvas. But then won't save

"It's NOT a workaround but standard scripting procedure… I think everyone starts and ends PS scripts with this… Error dialogs are a different"

in Photoshop Scripting 5 replies
12 hours ago
Muppet Mark replied to Script that resizes canvas. But then won't save

"Untested but from what I recall…   tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"   -- do your app stuff           set ruler units of settings to pi"

in Photoshop Scripting 5 replies
14 hours ago
Muppet Mark replied to Returning the status of a linked file

"Yes if you use placedItems then you will need to use a try/catch statment for missing links… If the links are images (rasters) then there is"

in Illustrator Scripting 2 replies
17 hours ago
Muppet Mark replied to Indesign from Illustrator Script

"You can write text files from any scriptable app of the suite… Just construct your string and use the File Object's write methods… There is"

in Illustrator Scripting 3 replies
1 day ago
Muppet Mark replied to Indesign from Illustrator Script

"Changing the #target mid way though a script is NOT how it's done… Oh be so simple… You can communicate between apps but it is done with the"

in Illustrator Scripting 3 replies
1 day ago
Muppet Mark replied to making a spot color channel of a selection

"tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS5"   activate           set useropacity to 50           set teller to 1           set userchannelname to"

in Photoshop Scripting 1 replies
1 day ago
Muppet Mark replied to Position of textframe

"position is documented… its a property of pageItem object the *super class* and as such is inherited by all sub-objects…"

in Illustrator Scripting 9 replies
3 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Position of textframe

"You may have to tell use a bit more info… Like what AI version you are using… Is the documents new or opened… does it have multi-artboards…"

in Illustrator Scripting 9 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Location of guides

"You can create a pathItem anywhere you like then just set the guides property to true… AI uses one canvas (artboards can overlap etc.) for e"

in Illustrator Scripting 5 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Location of guides

"No its not quite as straight forward as that… In AI guides are NOT just H&V rules at X or Y… A guide can be any pathItem Shape… You also hav"

in Illustrator Scripting 5 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Location of guides

"Also, why does it seem that Indesing scripting has more access to properties and methods? A newer and much better thoughtout app…"

in Illustrator Scripting 5 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to add rating to file name

"I think a little more info is needed… This works here on a bunch of my *.ai files…   Is whats behind the last underscore always digits like"

in Bridge Scripting 2 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to getting different type coercion errors

"Did you try my methods of not changing the properties afterwards and allow the app to create with these colours…?"

in Illustrator Scripting 17 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to getting different type coercion errors

"Your code filled with the right colour when I tried it here… Anyhows you can make use of defaults to do the colouring too… #target illustrat"

in Illustrator Scripting 17 replies
4 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to getting different type coercion errors

"There were a couple of other things I would do different… I would always put filled to true before passing a colour… I could not understand"

in Illustrator Scripting 17 replies
5 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Clipping Path info

"I tried Mike's code and it worked just fine here…?"

in Photoshop Scripting 4 replies
5 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to getting different type coercion errors

"…Im not sure about what you are doing… or if you have posted enough of your code… You have not called your function or passed it the colours"

in Illustrator Scripting 17 replies
5 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Thumbnail Event of type "close".

"There is no close event listed for document… Only for Application (when it quits) To my knowledge you can only use the events that are liste"

in Bridge Scripting 2 replies
6 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Evaluate if a number is even or odd

"function isEvenNumber( n ) { return n % 2 == 0 ? true : false };"

in Illustrator Scripting 2 replies
6 days ago
Muppet Mark replied to Syncing one main folder and subfolders to another folder and subfolders?

"In short the answer is yes… this is the kind of thing a Bridge script could do… Bridge does have inbuilt methods to move files… I think you"

in Bridge Scripting 2 replies
1 week ago
Muppet Mark replied to Saving documents via Scripts: Get current file name and set save path/file type

"Im currently at work ( no time to test) but I wound NOT use name as a variable… It looks like you are getting a clash… Change to docName or"

in Illustrator Scripting 3 replies
1 week ago
Muppet Mark replied to Regex - Limit input to a positive number (float or int)

"Im not the greatest of regexers but may be… I perfer to use test() over match to return boolean… match can return null too so you need an if"

in Illustrator Scripting 1 replies
1 week ago
Muppet Mark replied to an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM')

"The guide also suggests a max of 1000 files on mac and 500 on pc if you are performing a batch routine…"

in Illustrator Scripting 18 replies
1 week ago
Muppet Mark replied to apple script execute via do script (using javascript).

"Well don't that sound typical… Add scriptability n break a working app feature…   Don't tell the general forum they will come n blame us…"

in Illustrator Scripting 13 replies
1 week ago