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Fast way to change fill colour of many objects

Aug 9, 2012 5:04 PM

I am currently navigating the document model through all objects and manually adjusting the fill colour of desired objects.

 

For example, for each layer, I iterate through the GroupItems, CompoundPathItems, PathItems, in the GroupItems I navigate the GroupItems, CompoundPathItems, PathItems, etc.

 

In order to change all the colours of the objects, it ends up taking over a minute to accomplish.  But in the Illustrator UI, I can select a very complicated group item and change it's colour very fast.  In the SDK, GroupItem does not have a fill colour parameter, so I have to iterate through all sub-items to change the colour.

 

Is there a better way?  This seems so slow.

 

...Matt

320 Views   1 Reply   Latest reply: A. Patterson, Aug 10, 2012 8:02 AM
 
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    Aug 10, 2012 8:02 AM   in reply to mwhouser
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    There is a method AIPathStyleSuite::AdjustObjectAIColors() which takes a callback for updating a colour. You can tell it to visit just fill colours only. I don't know what happens if you call that on a group though; does it find all the children with fill colours automatically? If not, you might be able to sue the AIArtSetSuite to get all the art of a particular type from a layer and then run AdjustObjectAIColors() on each?

     

    In genearl, if AI can do it, we can. Though it's not always obvious how

     
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