Give comprehensive API to access gradient mesh elements!

Illustrator's gradient-mesh feature is a powerful and has created a completely different type of artwork. We can see some of it by searching with Google search engine "gradient mesh image". There we can see what some people have done with the gradient-mesh feature. However, working manually with gradient-mesh can be very time-consuming and that has block this form of art. It's very time-consuming and not economically efficient.
I suggest that you offer an extensive API to get access to key elements of gradient-mesh so users can create their own scripts to speed up whatever they are doing.

Hi all,
verry good suggestions. The note The specified item was not found. solved my problem, nearls ;-).
How it came to this?
It has been a propper installed and working PI 7.10 SPS 6.
After or during patching to SPS 7 anything went wrong in communication with the SLD. During investigation the user registering to the SLD was not allowed to do this any more and the entries inside SLD Administration for the two RFC connections were not available any more:
1. SLD setting: NoneUnicodeGatewayRegistrationId for SLD_NUC was gone (deleted during patch)
2. SLD setting: UnicodeGatewayRegistrationId for SLD_UC was gone (deleted during patch)
3. SLD setting: StartRfcServer for true was gone (deleted during patch)
4. User for SLD access was not alowed to access SLD
This Blog is quite good /people/venugopalarao.immadisetty/blog/2007/03/15/adapter-engine-cannot-be-found-in-integration-directory but did not fit 100% my problem as well.
The problem on my side was based on the fact that my system was upgraded from PI 7.00. It looked like that the users had not all permissions needed for a PI 7.10 system with SPS 7. I changed the permissions of the following users: PIRWBUSER, PIREPUSER, PIDIRUSER, PIAPPLUSER und PIAFUSER and added the following roles but I think that the main role is this one: SAP_BC_WEBSERVICE_PI_CFG_SRV
SAP_BC_WEBSERVICE_PI_CFG_SRV
SAP_SLD_ADMINISTRATOR
SAP_SLD_CONFIGURATOR
SAP_SLD_CONTENT_SYNC
SAP_SLD_DATA_SUPPLIER
SAP_SLD_DEVELOPER
SAP_SLD_ORGANIZER
SAP_SLD_SUPPORT
SAP_XI_ID_SERV_USER
SAP_XI_ID_SERV_USER_MAIN
Maybe I will check later which one was really the reason for my problems.
BR Markus

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