Adobe Illustrator CS5 - New Artboard

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#1

Hi there,

How can I create a new Artboard in Adobe Illustrator with AS or duplicate an Artboard? Is this even possible?

Thanks for your help

Cheers
Marth

#2

There would appear to be some things not right with AppleScript and Illustrator’s newer artboards. You can however make a new one as long as you provide the bounding rectangle.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	tell the current document
		make new artboard with properties {artboard rectangle:{0, 0, 100, -100}}
	end tell
end tell

The negative values are for CS5 which is now downside up or is it upside down.

#3

Thank you very much! It works great!
Erm…but how do I define the Position of the new Artboard?

Cheers
Marth

#4

With the bounds in the rectangle you supply. Relative to the document co-ordinates {x,y,w,h}