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Adobe Illustrator CS Scripting Guide
The paragraph class has additional properties that other related classes do not share,
including properties for margins, tab stop settings, hyphenation, and word/letter spacing.
Example 35.1
The hyphenation of all text can be quickly changed from a script, as this example shows.
-- Enable hyphenation for every paragraph of the current document
tell application "Illustrator CS"
if (count text frames of document 1) > 0 then
set itemCounter to count text frames of document 1
repeat with i from 1 to itemCounter
set hyphenation of (every paragraph of text frame i of document 1) to true
end repeat
end if
end tell
Example 35.2
-- Paragraph Attributes
--
-- Make a new document
-- Make a rectangle
-- Make an text frame of kind area text and assign the previously made rectangle
as it's path
-- Set the contents of the text frame to some text containing three paragraphs
-- Resize and justify the paragraphs
--
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
make new document
make new rectangle in document 1 with properties {position:{100, 400},
width:400, height:200}
set areaText to make new text frame in document 1 with properties {kind:area
text, text path:the result}
set theParagraph to "Left justified paragraph." & return & "Center justified
paragraph." & return & "Right justified paragraph."
set the contents of areaText to theParagraph
set the size of the text of areaText to 28
set the justification of paragraph 1 of areaText to left
set the justification of paragraph 2 of areaText to center
set the justification of paragraph 3 of areaText to right
end tell
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