Select All using AppleScript

Question

I saw the posting for selecting all objects using JavaScript. How do you do this with AppleScript?

Answer 1

Both of these work your syntax is fine. The layers method is fractionally quicker but I would consider this to be the more brute force method.
This will move all items even if they are locked!!!
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set has selected artwork of (every layer of document 1) to true
translate selection delta x -1000 delta y -1000
end tell
This will fail and error if there are locked page items
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
set selected of (every page item of current document) to true
translate selection delta x 1000 delta y 1000
end tell