Updated Illustrator - Previously working script now has error

[RebaMcEntire]

I'm getting "Error 1220: Illegal Argument" for this line.

textRef.textRange.justification = Justification.CENTER;

If I comment it out the script runs fine. This was working fine before I updated to CC 2018.

Does anyone have any idea why this is throwing an error now?

[Silly-V]

The TextRange object doesn't have justification, it's inside the textRange.paragraphAttributes property. But this doesn't really answer the question -but try it out?

[RebaMcEntire]

I tried this out:

textRef.textRange.paragraphAttributes.justification = Justification.CENTER;

Exact same error unfortunately.

Thanks for replying!

[Ten A]

It seems work fine in Illustrator CC(ver.22) like below.

check your textRef variable when you get an error.

[CarlosCanto]

hmm...both of these work on Win10, CC2018

var idoc = app.activeDocument;
var sel = idoc.selection[0];
sel.textRange.justification = Justification.CENTER;
sel.textRange.paragraphAttributes.justification = Justification.CENTER;

[RebaMcEntire]

Found the solution here.

Re: What's New in Illustrator Scripting CC2018

I guess the text area needs to be populated before changing paragraph attributes in cc2018.

Thanks for the help.