Re: 300% speed discrepancy
Re: 300% speed discrepancy
- Subject: Re: 300% speed discrepancy
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2003 08:57:26 +1000
On 24/9/03 1:08 AM +1000, David Jacopille, email@hidden, wrote:
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Answers to questions so far:
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Can I Use Illustrator Script Men?
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The script is a "full featured" script which mounts servers and such and is
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launched (as an application) in an automated fashion on a server by a
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combination of "cron" and "at" and a perl script checking for appropriate
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conditions for launching this and other scripts/applications. I'm not sure
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how feasible it would be to run this script from the Illustrator script menu
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given these conditions.
Then I fear you're out of luck. If your charts were complex enough, it might
be worth making them separate scripts in the script menu, and calling them
via GUI scripting. But I'm not sure that what you're doing warrants such
kludgery.
FWIW, the difference in times between an applet and script menu seems
extreme with Illustrator. I guess that's partly due to screen redraw, but
there must be more to it than that. Your next step is to go to
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http://www.adobe.com/support/feature.html> and request something like "do
script" feature, or the ability to turn off screen redraw.
Oh, and make the window of the template you use quite small, and not showing
the area that you're drawing in -- that can help speed things up.
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Am I Using System Script Menu?
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Another user asked if I was running the application from the scripts menu - by
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this I'm guessing he meant the AppleScript Script Menu that can be placed in
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the system menu bar. Nope - super slow mode is obtained by double clicking
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the script application which resides on the desktop. Are you suggesting that
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the script goes faster when it's in the script menu?
It's unlikely to.
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What sort of charts are these?
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The application I'm working on now produces charts to these specifications:
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http://homepage.mac.com/titanium9/.cv/titanium9/Public/Hypo Chart Specific
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ations.pdf-binhex.hqx
Very nice. (I've done some chart scripting in AI myself, so I'm interested
in seeing others' work).
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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