Illustrator Applescript open command is broken

Hi, Scripters have been doing many different things with Illustrator over the years. One of the things that allows that is the ability to open the files we need to process. Many things could prevent a file from opening, so the open command has a nifty dialogs parameter, that allows a scripture to ask Illustrator to open a file but regardless of any issues, prevent a dialog from opening. On top of that, Illustrator can be asked to not display any dialogs at all with the user interaction property.
Alas, the new Illustrator has a missing fonts dialog box that will not go away. It has the TypeKit logo at the top, so many folks, me included, got annoyed with TypeKit, but that was misplaced.
Adobe: If we can't confidently ask AppleScript to open a file without it, well, not opening, we are kind of screwed.
Please put someone on this task: When the open command is invoked with the dialogs parameter set to false, do not show the Missing Fonts dialog.
It has to happen and it has to happen quickly.
Thanks! Happy-scripters everywhere.

Aloha Hanaan, me old partner in crime...
Alas, ill-mannered dialogs have always been a problem with AI. Super annoying, but then I read about all the other horrors Adobe perpetrate on their scripting users and am personally quite glad they leave AI's Apple event support largely alone.
I'm not familiar with this particular dialog (I'm currently still slumming it on CS6 for development purposes), but I have had the exact same problem in the past with Universal Type Server's "missing font" dialogs, which don't respect any of AI's user interaction settings either. I've even had problems with AI itself throwing up "swatch conflict" dialogs when duplicating content between documents.
To what extent these missing font dialogs are AI's fault versus the font manager's fault I couldn't say offhand. I'd have to spelunk the AI SDK to see if it provides any hooks for plugins to determine AI's current user interaction settings prior to throwing up dialogs and/or instructs plugin developers to respect those settings, and frankly if I wanted to deal with AI's C* APIs I wouldn't be using its scripting interface in the first place.
Either way, as W_J_T says, you need to submit a bug report directly to Adobe if you even want them to be aware of the issue. Whether they'll bother to fix it, who can say... the entire AppleScript world ain't exactly blooming with health these days, so I doubt a fix will be high priority assuming it's even practical.
In the meantime...
The workaround I used was to create a separate 'dialog monitor' service that my AI scripting code would activate before performing a command known to trigger badly-behaved dialogs, then deactivate again once the troublesome operation was done. While running, the service would use GUI Scripting to poll the state of AI's GUI every second or so, and if it detected the appearance of a dialog would figure out what type of dialog it was and click the appropriate button to dismiss it.
Obviously, this logic had to be individually coded for each type of dialog encountered, could be a tad fragile (though I did my best to make it cope with stuff like window order changing), and tended to require updating when new versions of software were installed. But it worked well enough
As this was all running on a headless Mac, I also wrapped the problem command in a try statement that'd catch any "timeout" errors, take a screenshot of AI's UI so I could see what (if any) dialogs were displayed at the time, then kill -9 the AI process and email me a full error report before restarting AI and proceeding onto the next job as normal. That way, any time the system got stuck on a dialog I'd not seen before, I had lots of troubleshooting info available to diagnose the problem and start working on the solution for that.
Being a Python weenie I just used a background thread to run all this stuff, but as an AppleScripter it shouldn't be any harder for you to write a stay-open 'dialog monitor' applet that does the UI polling from its `idle` handler. Just have your main script run and quit the monitor applet when needed, and mind and have it deal with any timeout errors as appropriate should your dialog monitor be unsuccessful in dismissing a dialog before the command gives up.
HTH
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