Re: Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
Re: Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
- Subject: Re: Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
- From: "Houston, Brad" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:16:32 -0500
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
Title: Re: Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
Hey Brian, thanks.
Other work overwhelmed me, thus I just caught up with your ever more developed responses. The system events approach I was not familiar with, but I’ll be all over it now. The holes in the applescript for Illustrator was driving me nuts; this approach can plug them all. Awesome!
Brad
On 11/20/12 4:39 PM, "Brian Christmas" <email@hidden> wrote:
Brad, I've been mucking about, and this script will turn all objects in all in-between first & last layers into greyscale.
Regards
Santa
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
tell current document
set theCount to (count of layers) as text
set theProperties to {}
repeat with EachLayer from 1 to theCount
if EachLayer > 1 and EachLayer < theCount then
set theProperties to page items of layer EachLayer
repeat with EachItem from 1 to count of theProperties
set selection to item EachItem of page items of layer EachLayer
tell application "System Events" to tell process "Illustrator"
try
click menu item "Convert to Grayscale" of menu 1 of menu item "Edit Colors" of menu 1 of menu bar item "Edit" of menu bar 1
end try
end tell
end repeat
end if
end repeat
end tell
end tell
On 21/11/2012, at 4:58 AM, "Houston, Brad" <email@hidden> wrote:
Illustrator CS5.1 color conversion
Greetings
I’ve been tasked to write a script that does a number of things with Illustrator (CS5.1) art, all of which I’ve managed to figure out (with some struggle), excepting only converting the art on certain layers to grayscale. There’s an easy command under “Edit” to do it, but I’ve been unable to figure out a way to do it via applescript. There are commands dealing with converting colors during export, but I need to change it in the document itself, and only for page items on specified layers.
Anyone have a clue? I’m exhausted.
Brad
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