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Hi all,
Would really appreciate it if someone could provide some insight about this issue (ILL CS2, but I suspect later versions act the same, Windows, JS):
I'm trying to import an existing AI into an empty layer of a new one, so that the new file will be in effect identical to the existing one. So I read the height and width of the existing file, create a new one with the same measurements and then use the createFromFile() method of the groupItems collections to import it.
The problem is that the imported item is not aligned properly with the new file. I can see that they are identical in size, but the crop area from the original file is outside the artboard, which causes an offset when saving the new file as a PDF. The same happens if I first save the AI as a PDF and then try to import that.
If I do exactly the same thing manually (using the Place command), the result is perfect.
Any ideas on how to overcome this annoying problem?

Hello Steve Light,
Thanks a lot for answering me. I did it (renamed and added this two lines at new line 89 and 90 in the Script, selected Textframe and execute the jsx from Windows-Explorer) but nothing happened. Only a warning message appeared. It sayed: "You used an illustrator-12 Script " The Message is in German, I cannot to translate literally.
No filename and no date wasn't fill in textframe.
It's a great pity, the same Script runs in CS3 without problems. But I need it for CS2 :-(
What can I do?
Sorry for my bad english again.

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