Scriptographer.org - Forum

Shuffling Artboards

Cana — Mon, 21 May 2012 22:40:07 +0200

Is there capability to shuffle artboards. I am working on a single file that has 55 different artboards with a logo on each of them. My website shuffles the logos at random, so I'd like to be able to do that in Ai if possible so that I can resize (if I have to) before posting to the web. Will save time so I do not have to replace images everytime I need to make a change.

Thanks,
Cana

Sketchy Structures too big of a file

Lisa — Tue, 15 May 2012 02:38:40 +0200

I used sketchy structures to create a web-like structure on top of a photo that i imported to illustrator. the file is so big that it takes forever to save and i can't plot it. is there any way i can save it to a smaller file?

Random Rotate

Sat, 12 May 2012 00:54:56 +0200

Love the Variator plugin, I use it all the time, but there's one thing that would make it better, that would be a random rotate function that would work like the scale function in Variator. If I knew anything about writing my own script I'd do it myself, but I don't. Any help would be great.
Cheers

Illu CS6?

Sun, 06 May 2012 10:52:31 +0200

it runs nor on illu cs6 (mac) at this time?
is an update planned?

thank you :)

How to ungroup?

alta — Thu, 03 May 2012 00:12:33 +0200

Hi,

Can anyone help me to solve this: how to ungroup the selected grouped items?

Thanks you in advanced
//A

How to specify page to open in multi-page PDF?

Wed, 02 May 2012 12:07:32 +0200

Hi there

I’d like to open each page in a long PDF document, do some things to it, and then save and close. Is there a way to specify which page in the PDF to open?

My code so far looks like this:

var myDirectory = script.file.parent;
var myFile = new File(myDirectory, 'File name.pdf');
var myDoc = new Document(myFile, 'cmyk', 'none');

It’s working fine, but I don’t want to have to manually tell it which page to open each time. So ideally I would change it to something like this:

var myDirectory = script.file.parent;
var myFile = new File(myDirectory, 'ANNUAL REPORT DECEMBER 2011.pdf');
for(i = 0; i
}

I’d appreciate any insights.

Item attributes?

Jordan — Wed, 02 May 2012 05:27:50 +0200

Is it possible to access item attributes from scriptographer? with Adobe scripting this is accessed using pageItem.note (or similar) and this refers to the text you would see in the attributes window in Illustrator.

thanks in advance for any help.
Jordan

working around an object

Julian — Tue, 01 May 2012 23:04:15 +0200

how would i get a script to work around an object without having to code it myself, or how do i convert paths to script?

typeof, constructor etc

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:11:54 +0200

What is used to determine the kind of a selected item?
I need to distinguish a path from a group or a text item.

In my tests, constructor.name gives 'Object' and typeof x is 'undefined'.

The error messages give 'object PointText' etc ... but where is this stored?

After much experimenting I find that
thing.constructor.toString.split(' ')[0]
gives me what I want for some cases ... but it does not seem to give Circle etc.

Any better ideas?

intersects() and Line

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:09:30 +0200

Do I have an error in this code or does intersects() not work for a Line?
I notice a bug report at October 2011 that also suggests 2 point lines are not behaving the same as paths with more points?

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When I run this code, I get 'no hit' followed by a list of hits if i use a Line
If I change the line to a thin Rectangle , intersects() seems to work ok.

var testLine = Path.Line(left,y,right,y);
document.activeLayer.appendTop(testLine) ;
// get intersections with hit item
if ( ! testLine.intersects(hitItem) ) {
console.log ('line at ', y, 'intersects says no hit');
}
console.log ('line at ', y, 'intersections are ...');
var locations = testLine.getIntersections(hitItem);
// Loop through the locations (if any):
for(var i = 0; i < locations.length; i++) {
// The position of the intersection:
var point = locations[i].point;
console.log ( point.x, ',' , point.y);
}