So my teacher Joe Pietruch introduced us to the wonderful world of manipulating Adobe tools with code. You can do it for Illustrator, Photoshop, InDesign, Acrobat, and After Effect. Quite nifty!
Here's the scripting guide and here's the Javascript API reference. The scripts will be edited and ran inside the tool Adobe ExtendScript.
It's pretty much all classic javascript, and for debugging I'm finding $.writeln(); or $.write(); to be quite useful. It's equivalent to console.log(), and it will show up on the javascript console window at the upper right corner of ExtendScript. Another useful thing is to have #target illustrator (or photoshop, or indesign...) at the top of codes. This will let you automatically run the script for that program when you try to open it.
RIT Alumni Josh Hutchins developed a tool that takes an entire folder of images, shrink them to one pixel width, and stack them together to create a colorful barcode. Pretty cool! I'm looking for suggestions of cool / useful things you can do with this power.
Leave a suggestion, and i might find a chance to develop it and add to my repo here! As the post is created, there's one script about duplicating items around a center point for some amount of times.
// DISCLAIMER: The Developers are not responsible for any program crashes caused by running the scripts. Use at your own risk.
P.S. Just found a community that makes these scripts for illustrator. Damn.
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