I am trying to learn Applescript to help my productive enviorment but I can’t seem to get this script to work…I must be missing something or I don’t understand something…Anyone help?
tell application "Finder"
activate
set the fileToPlace to the selection
end tell
tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
activate
set myDocument to make new documet
place fileToPlace
end tell
Its supposed to select the file in finder that I have selected, open a new document in Illustrator and place the file it selected via File>place. Everything works but the place part. It gives me an error thats its expecting something thats not there.
This is the code I came up with. However, it does not seem to be capable of placing jpeg’s. I did not try tiff’s. It works with eps’s and pdf’s.
tell application "Finder"
activate
set the fileToPlace to the selection as alias
end tell
tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
activate
set myDocument to make new document
set placeRef to make new placed item at current document with properties {file path:fileToPlace}
end tell
Hope this helps.
PreTech
Model: G5 dual 1.8
AppleScript: 2.1
Browser: Safari 125.12
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)