Questions tagged [javascript]
Questions related to Javascript code, one of the main technologies behind the web and also being used in Adobe software.
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Script to automatically snap all points to grid in Adobe Illustrator?
How would you write a script to move all points of all selected paths to the nearest (non-pixel grid) grid point?
e.g. I want all of the points of each polygon/path to snap to the nearest point on a ...
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Problems with Dynamic Text in SVG when font is not SVG
So, I have an graphics automation chain that has been happily running on a headless linux environment using programmaticaly generated/altered SVGs and PhantomJS (currently 1.9.0) as a final rendering ...
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Ending a Photoshop script when no layers are selected
I've been working with a function I found on stackoverflow here that works as far as I can tell by grouping the layers, dumping layer names into an array then ungrouping them.
function ...
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InDesign: how to remove everything between square brackets
I have a script to find all textframes in a document, and do a regular expression to remove (if contains) all text inside square brackets.
For example the text frame might contain:
"Lorem ipsum ...
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Talking about front end web development frameworks from a designer's perspective
I am a web developer working at a company where the front end framework we have selected is Angular JS. I am now in the position where I am the 'resident expert' whatever that means. I have been ...
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Long Shadow Effect in SVG for Web
Basically I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to efficiently get a long shadow effect with an SVG: Example Image
My three ideas on how this might be possible:
Hella detailed gradient map, ...
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Vector Format Perlin Noise Effect
Goal is to Achieve vector formatted Perlin noise line art. Visual Examples of the desired effect:
It is possible to create a static Perlin noise effecting using only Adobe Illustrator or photoshop?
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Indesign - remove empty cells from table
I have imported XML which contains nested tables and have created a script to remove all empty cells which is as:
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
for(var i=myDocument.textFrames.length-1; i>=...
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Bullet list syntax for Adobe InDesign script
I'm looking for the syntax that defines bullet points so that I can create a bullet list in a script for use as a guide template for other users. At a guess my best bet so far is that it's under '...
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Animated SVG Javascript Infographic for timeline
I am considering to make an animated infographic based on SVG, Javascript and CSS technologies of a timeline. I have lots of experience in programming but not so much in using these technologies to ...
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InDesign script to list hyperlinks in active document
I am trying to get a list of hyperlinks from my document printed in the console or output to text file. This is what i'm playing with:
for (k=0; k<app.activeDocument.hyperlinks.length-1; k++)
{
...
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Exporting SVG paths to HTML to animate with JavaScript
I have a complex blueprint, which I've traced in Inkscape. I'm going to programmatically animate the path and also add some other effects with JavaScript. I can include the file using HTML (e.g. <...
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Photoshop/Javascript - Will this code help me draw fronts on weather maps?
I am a meteorologist. I use Photoshop to help annotate maps. One thing I always wanted to do, but couldn't, was draw weather fronts.
Recently I've come across some javascript used by leafletjs to ...
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How to script a popup box before closing a document - InDesign
I have used javascript to script before, using an eventlistener to say
app.addEventListener( "beforeClose" , [function]);
function [functionname]()
etc...
What I need is a way to tell InDesign '...
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What is the difference between .jsx and .js?
I am new to Adobe Scripting - what is the difference between .jsx and .js?
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Search for string and delete entire text frame with JavaScript for Illustrator
I can delete a layer by name:
var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
var myLayers = myDoc.layers;
var myLayer = myLayers["layer name"];
myLayer.remove();
or by stacking order:
var ...
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Logarithmic Spacing in Illustrator
I'm trying to space text logarithmically. My goal is essentially the same as the one presented here, which is useful but doesn't help me as the only advice provided is to use JS, which I'm not ...
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Website Designs with Round Headers?
Does anyone have any examples of live websites with round headers? Similar to this: http://www.nasty-creatures.com/
I'm working on something for a client and have come up with a design with a round ...
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How to approach animating a svg from left to right? [Web]
I have image below which is text mixed with dots.
As the paths are not in order from left until right, how would one approach animating from left to right?
The only way I can think is to label each ...
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Indesign script (Javascript) to return/select words around insertion point
Consider the following text:
She sells sea shells.
Say my insertion point is currently at a blank space between two words, i.e.
app.selection[0].characters.length < 1
I need to select or return ...
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Is it possible to animate a PNG image with canvas?
I saw this page and wanted to know if anyone can point us in the direction of how this was created? this moving effect in the header. https://www.jetbrains.com/
i tried something like but i dont ...
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Scripting Artboard Export with specific bit depths
I'm working on setting up a reusable template for some PNG avatars. Unfortunately, the different avatars have specific export requirements. Currently I'm using Save for Web to achieve these specific ...
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After Effects expressions to sum numbers and control charts
I would like to build a project in which I will change two numbers and all of the following take place automatically! I'll Explain...
Part 1:
I have two layers, "Number 1" and "Number 2". Suppose I ...
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How can I get layers data in relation to their group name?
I am making a Photoshop script which gets every layer with Bevel and Emboss effect and then doing some actions. I have make this function so to get layers data...
function getLayersData()
{
...
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Acrobat - placeholder text for form field?
I have created a form in Acrobat and would like to have placeholder text within each field instead of actual labels for each field.
The first approach was a script I inserted into "custom" under the ...
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Artboard renaming issue
I'm working on a script for my team that will allow them to batch rename artboards in Photoshop. We use the following naming convention for our artboards: "ProjectTitle_BannerType_WidthxHeight_LG" ...
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Script to resize InDesign page to fit content
I'm wanting to use ExtendScript javascript to loop through each page of an Adobe InDesign document and change the size of the page to match the visible bounds of all the objects on that page. I'll ...
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Photoshop Javascript - Resize not working correctly
I have written a script in Javascript for photoshop which gets user input (number of boxes on the desktop) then converts it into pixel sizes. The problem is on resizing, the layer doesn't change to ...
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exportSVG in jsfl run as a command in adobe animate doesn't work
In Adobe Animate and with a .fla file (after importing a swf file, import to stage), I run this script
var exportFileName = 'file:///C|/temp/files/a.svg';
fl.getDocumentDOM().exportSVG(exportFileName,...
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InDesign Script to create URLs
Is there a script to use within InDesign so it finds a URL within textframes and it turns it into a hyperlink?
As I am aware, to create a hyperlink within InDesign requires you to right click and ...
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How to rotate all items as a group? (In a script, Illustrator)
I have an SVG with a few curved paths.
I'd like to create n versions of this, by rotating them around as a group (360 / n degrees apart), around the center of the square-shaped canvas they're in, like ...
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How to draw high-resolution images on client-side?
Any libraries, API, or tips are welcome. I am trying to draw Landsat 8 images using Canvas utility of Javascript on my browser. The grayscale reflectance values for Landsat 8 bands are from minimum -...
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Is it acceptable as a web developer to know very elementary JavaScript and rely on frameworks such as Materialize?
I've been using cusotmised Materialize CSS for most of the effects I want on my pages. I know very little JavaScript. Is it reasonable for me to continue working with frameworks such as Materialize ...
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How can I get an alert with layers count before they change?
I have this function below and before it calls bevel(); function, I want first to add an alert where it says how many layers going to be change...
function goThroughLayers(parentLayer){
for(var i=...
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How to select all shapes with specific color and replace this color with an other one?
I am totally new in Photoshop scripting, but I have some JavaScript experience.
I want to make a script (or find an existing one and study it) that finds every shape with a specific fill color in my ...
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Photoshop javascript, how to select contents of a layer
Is there a method for the following function (mac) Command-click on thumbnail in layer panel? (So all non empty pixels get selected in specified layer.)
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What is a Type 1 font in InDesign?
Diving down the rabbit hole of scripting InDesign to learn more about what fonts are in a file I ran across several font types but I'm unsure what it means in InDesign when you have a Type 1 font type....
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Get values from an applied bevel and emboss effect for multiple layers?
I created this function below, to get some values from an applied bevel and emboss effect, like shading angle, shading altitude etc.
alert("Angle: " + getBevelAndEmbossValues()[0] + "\nAltitude: " + ...
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Script: Change color Saturation while maintaining L in LAB model
For example, I have a red color #633b3d (Saturation: 40, L: 30) and I want to transform Saturation to 80 while maintaining L (resulting color should be #83211b). If I simply change foregroundColor.hsb....
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Scripting - Artboards names in photoshop
I checked in the Photoshop's Documentation if there was any option to work with artboards in scripting.
Unfortunately I couldn't find anything. Does anyone have experience in working with artboards ...
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Adobe Illustrator Script Adjustment
I'm working a script to make ALL the texts of a document with some specifics. Glad to say it's already functioning but not completely because it's just working on some of the textframes and not all of ...
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Is there automatical way to fill white pixels to black if it's surrounded by black pixel? See my image for more details
Basically, if you look at the image I want to fill the white noise if it's surrounded by black pixels. Maybe not a single white pixel but I definitely would like to fill the bigger patches. I was ...
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Indesign Script - output xml content as textframes [closed]
Is there a way of looping through xml tags and output each tag onto a new page of an indesign document
Here is what i have so far but i think i am way off:
var myDocument = app.activeDocument;
var ...
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SVG stroke-dashadjust polyfill. Trying to get SVG dotted stroke to align dots at the ends
W3C SVG Strokes introduces stroke-dashadjust but no browser implements it yet.
Adobe Illustrator's stroke panel has a button for this feature – its tooltip reads Aligns dashes to corners and path ...
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PDF Form Calulations
I have a PDF form with calculations that I just created and I intend on using it as an order form. I created it in Excel then brought it into Acrobat Pro DC (Mac OS) to create the form. Its just a ...
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Blood Dripping Down Screen Effect [closed]
I was wondering if anyone had a tutorial or an idea of how to create a dripping effect similar to that of the famous blood drip. In this case, I was curious as to how I could change the color, instead ...
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updating links based on pageItem name, not based on index of 'links.items'
I have a indesign document with several images. I want to update these images with Adobe Indesign Scripting. The following code works.
var file = new File ('/MyDisk/image01.png');
app.activeDocument....
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Design Research: Interactive graphic following mouse pointer on website
Doing some more visual design technique research. Nikita Nikiforov shows a very interesting visual feature on his website Nikita Nikiforov.
See the .gif below or visit the website to see it in action....
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Calling Pathfinder Divide through JavaScript in Illustrator?
How do I call Window → Pathfinder → Divide through JavaScript in Illustrator? If not, can I call an action that pushes this button through javascript?
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Programmatic swirl function
In the following post @joojaa writes out the math function for the artwork shown here:
His code is specifically in PostScript, which is awesome...but I'm wondering if this can't be converted to ...
