Adobe 16001500 - Illustrator CS2 - Mac Getting Started Manual

1, 1 Adobe ® Illustrator ® CS2 Scripting GettingStarted with JavaScript ® Introduction Scripting offers an easy way to manipulate Illustrator files programmatically. You can write scripts to create documents and objects, and to perform many of the operations that you acc…

2, Adobe 16001500 - Illustrator CS2 - Mac GettingStarted Illustrator JavaScript 2 Example 1: Acting on Selected Objects When the user makes a selection in a displayed document, the selected objects are stored in the document’s selection property. To access all selected objects in the active document: var selectedObjects = a…

3, GettingStarted Illustrator JavaScript 3 8. If no document is open, set the message to reflect that case. else { msgType = "No document Open."; } 9. Finally, print the message. alert( msgType ); 10. Save the file. 11. Run the script, as described in Executing JavaScript Sc…

4, GettingStarted Illustrator JavaScript 4 5. If no document is open, set the message to reflect that case. else { msg = "No document Open."; } 6. Print the msg. alert ( msg ); 7. Save the file. To run this example: 1. Launch Illustrator. 2. Open a document with some objects…

5, GettingStarted Illustrator JavaScript 5 8. Each element in the collection is an object of the desired type, and you can access its properties. To get an object’s name, for example, use the name property: var styleName = lastStyle.name; 9. To apply lastStyle to the first pa…

6, GettingStarted Illustrator JavaScript 6 5. Create a rectangle using the rectangle method of the pathItems object. Pass parameters for position, width, and height of the rectangle. (For details on these parameters see the pathItems object in the JavaScript Reference .) // Cr…