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1: Introduction
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Installing scripts in the Scripts menu
To include a script in the Scripts menu (File > Scripts), save the script in the Scripts folder, located in the
/Illustrator CS4/Presets
minus the file extension, appears in the Scripts menu.
Scripts that you add to the Scripts folder while Illustrator is running do not appear in the Scripts menu until
the next time you launch Illustrator.
Any number of scripts can be installed in the Scripts menu. If you have many scripts, use subfolders in the
Scripts folder to help organize the scripts in the Scripts menu. Each subfolder is displayed as a separate
submenu containing the scripts in that subfolder.
Executing scripts from the Other Scripts menu item
The Other Scripts item at the end of the Scripts menu (File > Scripts > Other Scripts) allows you to execute
scripts that are not installed in the Scripts folder.
Selecting Other Scripts displays a Browse dialog, which you use to navigate to a script file. When you select
the file, the script is executed.
Only files that are of one of the supported file types are displayed in the browse dialog. For details, see
"Script support in Adobe Illustrator CS4" on page
Startup scripts (.jsx scripts only)
JavaScript scripts with a
automatically when you launch Illustrator and each time you run a script. The folders are:
➤
An application-specific startup scripts folder, which contains scripts for Illustrator CS4
➤
A general startup scripts folder, which contains scripts that run automatically when you start any
Creative Suite 4 application
Application-specific startup scripts folder
You must place application-specific startup scripts in a folder named
in the Illustrator installation directory.
For example, when Illustrator CS4 is installed to its default location, you would create the
Startup Scripts
➤
Windows:
➤
Mac OS:
JavaScript scripts with a
➤
The application is launched.
➤
Any JavaScript file is selected from the Scripts menu (File > Scripts).
folder in your Illustrator CS4 installation directory. The script's filename,
file extension can be installed in one of two folders, so the scripts run
.jsx
folder at the following location:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CS4\Startup Scripts\
/Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS4/Startup Scripts/
extension placed in the
.jsx
7.
Startup Scripts,
Startup Scripts
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which you create
folder run automatically when:
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