Problem applying stroke miter limit with applescript
Hi, I have a bit of a problem with applescript, Im creating a Text item and setting the stroke to 0.4pt then i want the stroke miter limit to be set to 2 but it wont work i get :-
Adobe Illustrator got an error: Can’t set properties of text frame 1 of layer 1 of document 1 to {stroke miter limit:2}. (error -10006)
but im am able to apply a stroke miter limit of 2 on a path item, is there a way of converting the text frame to a path item then applying the stroke miter limit to it.
heres my script :-
on TicketFront_(posX, posY)
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
set ticketItem to make new text frame in theDoc with properties {contents:{"Some Text"}, position:{(35.7 + posX) * 2.834645, (173.5 - posY) * 2.834645}}
set properties of the text of ticketItem to {text font:text font "Raleway-Thin", size:5.54, justification:center, fill color:{class:spot color info, tint:100.0, spot:spot "PANTONE 4535 U" of document 1}, stroke color:{class:spot color info, tint:100.0, spot:spot "PANTONE 4535 U" of document 1}, horizontal scale:126.46, stroke weight:0.4}
--This next line gives me the error
set properties of ticketItem to {stroke miter limit:2}
end tell
end TicketFront_
ive also tryed putting convert to paths ticketItem in the script which converts the text to paths but the stroke miter limit still dont work.
Thanks in Advance.
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you're not targeting the paths yet, you have to drill down to the letters (paths)
textFrame to Outlines returns a Group
inside this group you have compound paths
inside each compound path you have the actual paths, one or more, depending on the letter
try something like this, (not actual code, I'm just guessing)
set ticketGroup to convert to paths ticketItem
set ticketCompoundPath to first compoundPath in ticketGroup
set ticketPath to first pathItem in ticketCompoundPath
now you can set the miter limit property of ticketPath
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