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Pass vbscript variables to javascript string

Participant ,
Oct 07, 2017 Oct 07, 2017

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Thx to this forum I can now save AI docs as a TIFF using JavaScript.  With full paths I can run my script with no issues.  Now I need to replace full paths with variables.  So far no luck from what I have tried.  How does one insert variables into a JS being executed inside a vbscript?  Below is my latest attempt.

Also, according to the Illustrator reference guide one must run the JS code as a string when inside vbscript.  No problem but that makes for one very-very long, single line JS.  For "bonus points" , how does break that down the JS into a multi-line string?  My various attempts have failed.  Issue may have to do it while running inside a vbscript?

Set App = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

Dim SourceFolder, DestFolder, NewState, NewSection

Call GetNewInputs()

Sub GetNewInputs()

      

        NewState = UCase(InputBox("Current STATE or REGION to be processed.", _

        "STATE or REGION", "SOCAL"))

        NewSection = ("Section_" & InputBox("INPUT SECTION NUMBER: Section_YY", _

        "Input Section", "32"))

       

        Set SourceFolder = FSO.GetFolder("S:\" & NewState & "\" & NewSection & "\Road DXFs")

        DestFolder = "S:\" & NewState & "\" & NewSection & "\Light TIFFs\"

       

End Sub

' now for the JS

App.DoJavaScript("function test(){var doc = app.activeDocument;var destFile = new File(""/s/" + <%=NewState%> + "/" + <%=NewSection%> + "/Light TIFFs/SOCAL_CN68_resx.tif"");var type = ExportType.TIFF;var opts = new ExportOptionsTIFF();opts.imageColorSpace=ImageColorSpace.GrayScale;opts.resolution=72;opts.antiAliasing=AntiAliasingMethod.ARTOPTIMIZED;opts.IZWCompression=false;opts.saveMultipleArtboards=true;opts.artboardRange=""1"";doc.exportFile(destFile, type, opts);}test();")

MyDoc.Close(2)

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Valorous Hero ,
Oct 08, 2017 Oct 08, 2017

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I thought the <% %> tags were for .asp web pages? Well, I think you can just put in your VB variables with the proper VB concatenation symbol (isn't it an & ?) and as far as your long javascript, I'd expect the underscore return method to work with splitting a long VB string of javascript.

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Oct 09, 2017 Oct 09, 2017

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Yea, that's what I originally tried and UI was not getting an error but the AI Window would open asking where to save it (which means it was not finding the path correctly).  But I went back again just for laughs to the original '& xxx &' method and this time it works!  Oh well, must had some blank space or syntax out-a-whack.

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