Adobe Illustrator Scripting Guide

This repo hosts the Adobe Illustrator Scripting Guide RST docs, linked into a http://readthedocs.io system hosted at https://ai-scripting.docsforadobe.dev/

This came from the Adobe Illustrator CC Scripting Guide (https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/illustrator.html).

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To-do

This project is still VERY wip! Still to do:

Scripting Guide Section

• Find/replace keyword with link to section

Code Reference:

• Finish JS obj ref
  • Organize into folders / sections based on root object
  • Resolve all 'todo' parameter descriptions (what is relativeObject?)
• Add Applescript obj ref
• Add VBScript obj ref
• Changelog

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Contribution

Contributors are welcome and encouraged to suggest fixes, adjustments, notes/warnings, and anything else that may help the project.

Internal References

Anchors should be defined at each page setting relative to the root folder; the anchor for the "Application" page within the JS Object Reference should be:

.. _jsobjref/Application

And the anchor for a child item (property, method or example):

.. _jsobjref/Application.open

Then, to link to these items from other pages, we use:

:ref:`jsobjref/Application`

or:

:ref:`jsobjref/Application.open`

External Links

These should follow the following structure:

`Link Text <http://www.aenhancers.com>`__

Tables

Function parameter tables should have following order:

+---------------+------+-----------------------------+
|   Parameter   | Type |         Description         |
+===============+======+=============================+
| ``parameter`` | Type | What does the parameter do? |
+---------------+------+-----------------------------+

Use Table Formatter <https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=shuworks.vscode-table-formatter>_ for VSCode for easier table formating.

Admonitions Usage

Currently, the following admonitions <http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#admonitions>_ are in use in this project.

Try to keep one piece of data per note, for easier parsing.

.. note::
	Notes detail version added, and/or relevant pieces of information.

.. tip::
	Tips supply helpful suggestions on usage or behaviours.

.. warning::
	Warnings convey negative behaviours, or when something won't work the way you'd expect.

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Build HTML Locally

You may want to build the HTML locally before pushing, in order to ensure that the result is what you'd expect. These files aren't included in the git repo, nor are they used online; this is solely to create a local, offline version of the online docs.

• Install Python
• Install pip
• Navigate to the project directory and use the command pip install -r requirements.txt
• Build the docs using make html

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Licensing & Ownership

This project exists for educational purposes only.

All content is copyright Adobe Systems Incorporated.