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Adobe Illustrator 9 is scriptable

Author:Ira Cary Blanco
Posted:6/21/2000; 7:19:07 AM
Topic:Adobe Illustrator 9 is scriptable
Msg #:17977
Prev/Next:17976 / 17978

I don't know if this has been pointed out to Userland readers yet, but Adobe Illustrator 9 appears to be fully scriptable. While Adobe doesn't exactly go out-of-the-way to let users know, Illustrator 9 is now scriptable via a plug-in. The scripting plug-in isn't even an option on the Illustrator 9 installer, you have to manually put it in Illustrator's plug-ins folder. Actually, I was just peeking around the upgrade CD-ROM when I stumbled across the scripting folder which can be located with the following path: Adobe® Illustrator®:Adobe Solutions Network:Illustrator 9.0 SDK:Scripting.

The folder includes the plug-in, several example applescripts and a 434 page PDF file documenting Illustrator 9 scripting via Applescript on MacOS & Visual Basic on Windows.

I browsed the documentation and ran a few of the sample scripts and I was pretty impressed at the level of integration. This is great news for all scripters, and it's only a matter of time before we can tie in frontier an XML-RPC.

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