Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Adobe Illustrator 9 is scriptable
Author: Robert Cassidy Posted: 6/21/2000; 11:18:43 AM Topic: Adobe Illustrator 9 is scriptable Msg #: 17988 (In response to 17977) Prev/Next: 17987 / 17989
Dave mentioned that AS support was being downplayed because Adobe was concerned about people automating their product, but I don't agree with this point.Adobe has been building in automation support for Photoshop and many of their other products, but Adobe is also very stubborn when it comes to platform feature mis-match. Providing AS support to Illustrator leaves Windows users without similar functionality.
For a company that was actively working to better penetrate the Windows market to simultaneously develop stronger features for it's non-Windows version sends a very difficult message for customers to accept. Adobe seems to instead have decided to roll their own automation solution for their products, which you see in Photoshop now.
Perhaps now having VB mature on Windows and AS's future secured in Mac OS X makes it easier to officially support the OS level scripting with some measure of parity across platforms. This is far-and-away for me the feature worth upgrading to Ill 9 over, so it's too bad that Adobe isn't doing more with it.
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