illustrator plug-in coolness
Sep. 24th, 2006 02:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
egypturnashScriptographer: a tool to let you write Javascript programs that interact with Illustrator. Or to use ones other people have made. Generative imagery, raster halftones, weird interactive tools... there's a lot of possibility here.
(nb. the rasterization effects only work on embedded images, not linked ones; they also seem to work from every pixel so use THUMBNAILS.)
I'd have included a gif of my initial fooling around with this, but trying to hack one of the sample scripts a bit made AI hang up. Save your work before playing with Scriptographer on anything important. Also, there's a known bug that it can make the text tools unusable when a script dies; this script will try to recover from that.
Addendum: Playing with a slight modification of the 'tree' script - I made the line weight vary as it draws the child lines. Each of these is a huge pile of paths, but I only drew a few, with different settings. Pretty cool.
Also, this page has some cute little AI scripts. "Adjust Dashes" and "Reverse" are things I've yearned for in the past!
(nb. the rasterization effects only work on embedded images, not linked ones; they also seem to work from every pixel so use THUMBNAILS.)
I'd have included a gif of my initial fooling around with this, but trying to hack one of the sample scripts a bit made AI hang up. Save your work before playing with Scriptographer on anything important. Also, there's a known bug that it can make the text tools unusable when a script dies; this script will try to recover from that.
Addendum: Playing with a slight modification of the 'tree' script - I made the line weight vary as it draws the child lines. Each of these is a huge pile of paths, but I only drew a few, with different settings. Pretty cool.
Also, this page has some cute little AI scripts. "Adjust Dashes" and "Reverse" are things I've yearned for in the past!
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