why woun't this work

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#1

I’m trying to write this for Illustrator everything works accept the date part. Any suggestions?

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	set myName to make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 767}, contents:"Dan Fox"}
	set fileName to name of current document
	set fileName to make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 738}, contents:fileName}
end tell

tell application "Finder"
	set myDate to current date
end tell
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 727}, contents:myDate}
end tell
#2

In your script myDate is a date class object and you need a string so:

set myDate to (current date) as string

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
	set myName to make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 767}, contents:"Dan Fox"}
	set fileName to name of current document
	set fileName to make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 738}, contents:fileName}
	make new text frame in current document with properties {position:{524, 727}, contents:myDate}
end tell

That may give you a more detailed date string than you want. You could substitute:

set myDate to date string of (current date)
or
set myDate to (short date string of (current date)

You can also parse the date string to create a string of particular elements, such as not including the day of week.

HTH
Craig

#3

Hi,

Illustrator probably needs the date as a text string. Also you don’t need to ask the Finder to give you the current date.

Try changing:

tell application "Finder"
    set myDate to current date
end tell

to:

set myDate to (current date) as string

Best wishes

John M

#4

thanks guys! :D:D:D

#5

Any one know how I can modify the date to just be month day and year like 9-8-05

#6

Hi,

Take a look here:

http://macscripter.net/faq/get_the_faq.php?id=211_0_10_0_C

Best wishes

John M