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CHAPTER 3: Scripting Illustrator Working with objects 27

Use the New operator if you added a reference to the Illustrator type library to the project. For example,

the following line creates a new reference to the

Application object:

Set appRef = New Illustrator.Application

Quitting Illustrator

AppleScript

Use the quit command:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

quit

end tell

JavaScript

Use the app.quit() method:

app.quit()

VBScript

Use the Application object’s Quit method:

Set appRef = CreateObject("Illustrator.Application")

appRef.Quit

Working with objects

Getting the frontmost document or layer

To refer to the selected document, use the application object’s current document property in

AppleScript or the

active document property in JavaScript or VBScript. Similarly, you can use the

document object’s current layer or active layer property to refer to the selected layer.

There are other types of “active” or “current” object properties, like

active dataset or active view. For

details, see the Adobe Illustrator CS5 Scripting Reference for your language.

Creating new objects

Several objects (besides the application object itself) cannot be obtained from containers or parent

objects. Your script must create these objects directly.

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