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• Is it possible to group objects, which are placed in the project and then hide them with line a single action-script? THX in advance, Philip

  I work in CP 9 and I'm going to try the following: the user must be able to make ALL invisible or visible to highlight boxes by clicking on the corresponding button on the first page layout. Thus, for example, if the user does not want the highlight boxes appear, click on "Hide the boxes" and boxes are hidden for the rest of the project. I managed to get to this point for help... but it is still a lot of work for me to manually enter all the different names of these boxes in the action-script. So my question is: is it possible to group objects, which are placed in the project and then hide them with line a single action-script? THX in advance, Philip

  Actually... releasing the CpExtra HTML5 widget, it will be possible.

  It has a function called @syntax that allows you to perform an action (for example HIDE) automatically on any object throughout a project of Cp9 simply based on the name of the object.

  So for example, if you named all the boxes to highlight you want hidden this way to have the suffix _HideMe and you say CpExtra you want all of them hidden if a user variable is assigned to a certain value, then that is what will happen.

  That's the good news.  The bad news is that the widget is still in BETA final tests at the moment, so you may need to wait a bit before you can realize your idea.

• Change the thickness of the line on the grouped objects?

  If I change my style of animation art drawn by hand to the use of things such as the line tool and pen, in Adobe Flash CS3. I paint characters who have segmented parts, I.e. the arms, legs, head. body, ect are all separate grouped objects with a set line thickness. The problem is that when I try to reduce or to develop the character, the lines that make up their body is too thick or too thin, depending on whether I'm bigger or smaller. It seems that I'm unable to change the line weight of the grouped objects, or dare I say, a Group of grouped objects. The greys out properties panel when I select an object, so I have no access at all. I don't want to go and change the thickness of line individually on each object, whose lines are all the same thickness originally.

  Is there a trick or a plugin that I can use to change this, so the line weight of the grouped objects can be changed? Or am I just ignorant the right answer with myself? Whatever it is, I'd be REALLY grateful help could someone of you provide!

  Okay, so I seem to have found a solution more effective in my problem what I expected. I can just convert the lines into filling by going to edit > forms > convert the packaging lines. That makes it so the lines will now change of relative size depending on how much I shrink or push an object.

  Please try to all the world, but I found my solution!

• change the text of legend group object image size figure

  I need to change the text frame size legend for figure based on the width of the figure in grouped objects

  How to do it please advice.

  Your information and code are not accurate! > Some parentheses are missing, expand the textframe 240 or the width of the image?

  However: Everything made to the works contained in the user interface, it expands the scope of the legend in my test to the right. I decided to write an own function for editing.

  main();
  
  function main() {
  
  var curDoc = app.activeDocument;
  var allGroups =  curDoc.groups;
  
  for (var i = 0; i < allGroups.length; i++) {
    var curGroup = allGroups[i];
    var pItems = curGroup.pageItems;
    if (pItems.length != 2) { continue; }
    for (var j = 0; j < pItems.length; j++) {
      var curItem = pItems[j].getElements()[0];
      var constrName = curItem.constructor.name;
      if (constrName == "Rectangle") {
        var rect = curItem;
      }
      else if (constrName == "TextFrame") {
        var tf = curItem;
      }
    }
    var rectGB = rect.geometricBounds;
    var tfGB = tf.geometricBounds;
    tfGB[1] = rectGB[1];
    tfGB[3] = rectGB[3];
    tfGB[2] = tfGB[2] + 20;
    tf.geometricBounds = tfGB;
    fitFrame(tf);
  }
  
  function fitFrame(aFrame) {
    var lastBaseLine = aFrame.lines[-1].baseline;
    var b = aFrame.geometricBounds;
    aFrame.geometricBounds = [b[0], b[1], lastBaseLine, b[3]];
  }
  }
  

  Note: The script will check if there are two elements on the page of the group. It does not, check if these two elements are textframe and rectangle, it assumes that it is correct.

  Kai

• Apply the clipping on a group object mask

  Hello

  I have a background and I need to apply a clipping of a group object mask. I can't perform the task that it clips only one object in the group.

  I need to some tips and advice. Please see my screen shot shown below. Thank yor.

  

  David,

  To be more precise, you can, for a clipping mask,

  (1) create the object in the background to be cut;

  (2) create the clipping objects, such as 3 separate letters (or just three circles or other) and place them as you wish on top of the background object;

  (3) select all letters/objects and object > compound mask > make;

  ((4) ShiftClick the background object or ClickDrag on everything or Ctrl / Cmd + A to select the two 1) and 3) and

  Object > clipping mask > make.

  and an opacity mask.

  (1) create the object in the background to be cut;

  (2) create the masking objects as objects of filling/nostroke in black or white, such as 3 separate live/described letters (or just three circles or other) and place them as you wish on top of the background object;

  (3) select all letters/objects and Ctrl / Cmd + G to group them (with the letters, you can use Object > compound mask > do instead);

  ((4) ShiftClick the background object or ClickDrag on everything or Ctrl / Cmd + A to select the two 1) and 3) and

  Click transparency Launcher (click on the right arrow above) do with with Clip opacity mask and mask invert checked (black letters, mask Invert unchecked for white letters).

• Change the display time for grouped objects

  Hello, I have problems to change the display time for the grouped items. I use 7 Captivate and I love how now grouped items display only as an element in the timeline because it reduces the number of lines visiblein the chronology for each object on a slide. However, now that the grouped objects is more individually appear in the timeline panel, I can't see all the adjustments for group objects together.

  If someone else has had this problem and is there a work around? My main problem is that if I need to extend or shorten the audio to the slide, and I assigned a tip action to be grouped in order to adjust the grouped object to match the audio, I must now separate adjust, regroup, then reset the advanced action by using the name of the new group. It's frustrating and tedious.

  To enlarge and view the items grouped on the timeline, you need to click the arrow next to the group name. Once you develop, you can select the individual object and adjust the timings.

  

  Alternatively, you can select the individual object in the Group on the slide and adjust the timing of the accordion of timing. You can do it without separate.

  Anthony

• Can I create subgroups in the grouped objects?

  Hello

  In CP 7 is it possible to create subsets of grouped objects?

  concerning

  Donal.

  No, one of my feature requests, but not realized in CP7.

  Lilybiri

• On group objects

  Hi all

  I have a question about a group object I create, any input is appreciated.

  So the group object I designed is similar to a symbol @ for email, with a 'C' entirely enclosing another character. I made these contours of characters (using "Create schema" in CS5) and then join those two transparent tracks (I think) in a group using "merge" option of Pathfinder.

  The thing is, I want to fill these two characters only, but when I do, the filling is spread across the whole cover, including an empty space between these characters (for example, if you work with symbol @, fills the entire circle rather than just one and the circular path).

  Previously, I had these two characters together, but as separate paths (or composite tracks) because only the character 'C' is transformed into contours and they are filled individually if nothing was wrong. However, the next step, I intend to take is to make a mask of clipping of the purpose of this group, so they must be a single compound path (or maybe something else works too? Please let me know).

  I'm just getting started with Illustrator, so please clarify your explanations.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Angela

  PS: When the two characters are transformed into contours and merged using pathfinder, I believe that the 'C' character is moved a little more. Why does that happen?

  You must keep this a compound path. Do not merge, use unite in the pathfinder. Fusion is nto give you a composite path so

  After using the pathfinder, you characters should notshift. Only reason I can think of is you are in CS5 and have in your flyourt to the transform palette menu > align new elements to the active pixel grid. Uncheck this box.

• Can I group objects to apply functions more simply?

  I have a series of video clips and buttons (we can call them mc1, mc2 and btn3 for now), and I would like to be able to hide or show all at once. For now, I have functions where I apply the visibility change them one at a time, where the function contains

  MC1. Visible = false;

  MC2. Visible = false;

  btn3. Visible = false;

  It works just fine. However, for various reasons (including my groups have much more than 3 items) it would be much better if I could define a group in the past (say 'group 1', containing mc1, mc2 and btn3) and apply things for them at the same time, where group1.visible = false would be equivalent to the code above.

  Due to other pieces of my code and how I need to group them with some overlap (think venn diagram), it is NOT wise to combine these objects in a video called "group1" and then show/hide all at once in this way.

  Is it possible that I can do this, or should I continue to write stupidly long functions? Why it sucks, is that now if I want to add something to the hypothetical Group 1, I have to find all the functions that I try to apply to that group and add my btn or movieclip to the list. It would be great if I could just designated as part of Group1, and then all of the functions that I joined group1 would affect it too.

  I hope that makes sense. It just seems like there must be a better way, but maybe there isn't.

  Here's an example of what I described where a group objects are made visible/invisible, based on the current state, each holds the visible property.  They have not all have the same value for this property, which means that you could be taken, that some of them appear and disappear and others... just specific to this example.

  var group1:Array = new Array(mc1,mc2,mc3,mc4);

  function toggleGroupVisibility(grp:Array) {}
  for (var i: uint = 0; i
  GRP [i] .visible =! .visible grp [i];
  }
  }

  toggleGroupVisibility (group1);

  -----------------------------------

  You can just as well to set the visible property to a specific State for the group...

  function toggleGroupVisibility2 (grp:Array, stat: Boolean) {}
  for (var i: uint = 0; i
  GRP [i] .visible = stat;
  }
  }

  toggleGroupVisibility2 (Group 1, false);  make all the invisible

  toggleGroupVisibility2 (Group 1, true);  they are all visible

• JS for resizing and scaling of grouped objects

  Hi, someone at - it pls advise how to write JS to resize and scale grouped objects...

  For example, if the group objects consists of forms and texts, when resized and scaled the text must also be enlarged or reduced as appropriate...

  Thank you very much..

  App.Selection [0] .horizontalScale = app.selection [0] .verticalScale = 50;

  Works for me - text frames get revised down with text and everything. It seems not serious if they are in a group or not.

• Question: color assigning, pipette, groups, object type and other things

  Hello!

  I have a weird problems with my beloved illustrator. Eyedropper and color chart assigning seems to be wild... I'll try to describe three situations: this is happening. Tell me Please, what I'm doing wrong... .

  1. group of forms in a black fill color for example.

  -J' I ggroup of black, forms complex logo pmaybe. They are literally grouped.

  -I want to change their fill in white color.

  -Selects the grup with black and white arrow, choose swatches.

  - Nothing happens.

  -J' I ungroup shapes, then select them with the black arrow and then I can change the color.

  2 group Forms in several background colors: black, yellow and white for example.

  -J’ai several grouped in forms different colors.

  -I want to change all their fill in white colors.

  -Select the grup with black arrow.

  -Illustrator should show "?" in the part of background/outline of the tools Panel, because there are selected of the forms with of different colors. But IAther I see completely different set of contour and the background color. Probably those I used in some before the action.
  

  -But okay, fine. I'm trying to assign a color to all of my Forms anyway. But gues what?
  

  - Nothing happens.
  

  -J' I ungroup shapes, then select them with the black arrow and then I see my "?" and then I can change the color.

  3. text object, paragraph, plain text, text layers grup - still.

  -J' have black text.

  -I want to change their fill in white color.

  -J' I select the text with the arrow black and white object, choose swatches.

  - Nothing happens.

  -I have to use the text tool to select text, and then I can change the color.

  In all cases I use color chart or pipette to take the color of shape- the same result s. It's crazy... Don't know what to do. And the worst thing is I have the same problems at work, where I use Mac, and at home, where I use Windows.

  Help, please!

  Your text object has a color of additional fill applied through the appearance Panel.

  Trash as the extra fill via the appearance panel color. Then try the pipette.

• How can I group objects without changing their stacking order?

  Hello world!

  I have large complex illustration with many objects and when I the Group down and higher objects the object background goes back and the appearance of the artwork changes. I think it is very stupid!

  Thank you very much!

  Very bad! I have worked with Maya... I looked at Corel Draw, the same as in Illustrator! Ha-ha-ha!

  Fine,

  "Ha ha ha" indeed. You are comparing apples and oranges.

  Of course of consolidation in a modelling program 3D does not work as it does in the 2D drawing programs. There is no order "stacking z"; each object has its own XYZ position in the global coordinate system. Since their debut in the middle of the 1980s, a group the general public focused on printing 2D vector drawing programs is by definition a set of contiguous objects in the stack of objects. It's for a good reason, having to do with, among other things, the order of rendering of live effects.

  Noncontiguous reunification is possible in some 2D programs. For practical reasons, the same thing exists as selections of saved from Illustrator.

  See the online help.

  JET

• How you can group objects without deleting existing animations of the main object?

  I would like to know if its possible to avoid to remove animations when the grouping.

  For example, I have a group of objects that have animations, and I would like to add another object to this group without deleting the group entertainment.

  If you want a set of objects to animate separately, do not group together them. Instead block them;   (Arrange > Lock)

  You can add other objects to add and lock slide then those.

  Individual objects when grouped (Arrange > Group), become indeed a single object, unique objects have only an animation, all the individual objects that have animations will lose their when grouped together.

• Group position relative to group objects

  Hello

  Is this possible in Illustrator to position a group of objects with respect to one of the objects within the Group (instead of just the limit of the Group)?

  I know that it is possible to align objects of an object key in a selection of multiple objects. However, instead, I'd like to be able to name a kind of "key object" within the Group and to position the Group (by dragging with the mouse pointer) against this object for example of a grid.

  I searched for this for a while, but I couldn't find an answer.

  One solution could be to copy and paste the Group and to remove objects in the copied group that are found above the object 'key '. Because the object 'key' is at the limit, it can be positioned correctly then and the original group can be aligned to the bottom of the copied group (hopefully it's clear). But I hope that there is an easier way to do it, it seems such a basic problem.

  Please let me know if I missed something or if there are other available workaround solutions.

  Thanks in advance for answer!

  Ivo

  If you want to align the left edge of the blue rectangle dark something, grab it by its left edge. Ditto for any edge, corner or any part of a path at all.

• Cut the group object model

  Hello

  I hope there, can someone help me.

  I have a vector of a flower, which is a group of smaller forms, and I would like to cut out a floral pattern to it. I placed the floral pattern on the flower and have tried to use the tools of pathfinder to subtract the floral pattern of the flower, but that doesn't seem to work.

  If someone can provide some help on this would be great! I've attached a picture to show what I got.

  Thanks again for your time!

  

  The Group of all black parties.

  Choose the flower and floral pattern.

  Click on the button make mask in the transparency Panel.

  Uncheck the option to hide if necessary.

  Please also see the documentation for any other question.

  How to change the work using transparency and the mix of patterns in Illustrator