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Re: Illustrator Scripting Help Needed
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Re: Illustrator Scripting Help Needed


  • Subject: Re: Illustrator Scripting Help Needed
  • From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:29:23 +1000

On 14/10/03 1:54 AM +1000, Rob Stott, email@hidden, wrote:

> I'm trying to write a script, part of which involves deleting
> everything on the artboard to the right of a particular point. The
> chunk below looks right to me but does absolutely nothing - not even an
> error message.
>
> tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
> tell front document
> delete (every path item whose (item 1 of position) > 200)
> end tell
> end tell
>
> I was expecting to have to delete all path items, then all text path
> items etc etc in turn. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong

I guess you're being wildly optimistic. You can use a whose clause with a
property, but not part of a property, as you're attempting here.

> or
> alternatively suggest a better way of doing this?

You're going to have to loop through, something like this...

tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
tell document 1
set thepos to position of every page item
repeat with i from (count of items of thepos) to 1 by -1
if item 1 of item i of thepos > 200 then
set locked of page item i to false
delete page item i
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell


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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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