How to begin scripting in Illustrator
I tried to search the forum, so forgive me if this has already been covered ad nosium... but I couldn't find it. (Doesn't bold welll for my ability to script now does it...)
My question is: Photoshop has Configurator and quite a bit of SDK materials for scripting in AS, VBS and JS... but I can't seem to find anything in Adobe Labs for Illustrator. Where does one find this information? I'm creating some customized panels in PS and would love to do the same for AI. Cleaning up panels and interface.
Thanks,
Did you click on the show all products…? SDK & Scripting guides are here…
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/illustrator.html
You will also find a couple of useful illustrator helper files here…
http://www.jongware.com/idjshelp.html
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