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Illustrator does not support the select command to change the application's current
selection. Use set the selection to in place of select.
-- Select the first object in the document
tell application "Adobe Illustrator CS"
-- Make sure there is a page item to select
if (document 1 exists) and (page item 1 of document 1 exists) then
set the selection to page item 1 of document 1
end if
end tell
Example 1.1
You don't need to make objects part of the selection to act on them. The selection is most
useful for moving objects to and from the clipboard using the cut, copy and paste
commands, which act on the current selection. The clipboard can be used effectively for
moving data between applications that do not share common object classes.
Note that Illustrator must be the frontmost application when executing any command that
deals with the clipboard. We bring Illustrator to the front in the example below by using
AppleScript's activate command.
-- Copy the current selection to the clipboard then paste it into a new document
tell application "Illustrator CS"
-- If Illustrator is not the frontmost application, activate it.
if not frontmost then activate
-- Make sure there is a document to copy from
if (count documents) > 0 then
-- and a selection to work with
set selectedItems to selection of current document
if selectedItems is not {} then
copy
set colorSpace to color space of current document
make new document with properties {color space:colorSpace}
paste
end if
end if
end tell
12 Aug 03
AppleScript Reference
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