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Scripting with AppleScript

This chapter uses script examples and explanations to help you to become familiar with Illustrator

scripting using AppleScript.

For more information

Several extended sample scripts are in the :Scripting:Sample Scripts folder in your Illustrator CS5

installation directory.

For information about individual classes, objects, properties, commands, and parameters, as well as script

samples that demonstrate how to use many of these items, see Adobe Illustrator CS5 Scripting Reference:

AppleScript, in the

:Scripting:Documentation folder in your Illustrator CS5 installation directory. You

also can view the Illustrator CS5 dictionary from the Script Editor application;see “

Viewing the AppleScript

object model” on page 9.

If you do not understand the concepts and terms used in this chapter, read Adobe Introduction to Scripting.

Your first Illustrator script

The traditional first project in any programming language is displaying the message “Hello World!” In this

example, you create a new Illustrator document, then add a text frame containing this message. Follow

these steps:

1. Open Script Editor.

In a default Mac OS installation, Script Editor is in

Applications:AppleScript:Script Editor. If you

cannot find the Script Editor application, you must reinstall it from your Mac OS system CD.

2. Enter the following script.

--Send the following commands to Illustrator

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

--Create a new document

set docRef to make new document

--Create a new text frame with the string "Hello World"

set textRef to make new text frame in docRef ?

with properties {contents: "Hello World!", position:{200, 200}}

end tell

3. In the Script Editor toolbar, click Run.

IP: To add the script to the Illustrator Scripts menu (File > Scripts), save the script in the Scripts folder. The

script will appear on the menu the next time you start Illustrator. For details, see “

Installing scripts in the

Scripts menu” on page 10.

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