Is it possible to create vector objects like forms composed as draw them (automatically)?

I would like to start using Illustrator more frequently for web interface design projects and the user, but I still want to take everything in Photoshop for final rendering and compositing (and the simple fact that most developers want to psds, not files have). However, I believe that the only way to transfer all of the work of Illustrator vector and preserve as vector objects in Photoshop (during export) successfully must manually convert each individual vector object in Illustrator to a form of compound (by selecting the shape by clicking make compound shape in the Pathfinder palette menu). This can be very tedious if it must be done after the design is complete and very inefficient if you convert all the objects you draw it.

Is there a way to define Illustrator to automatically create each vector object drawn as a form of compound without having to manually convert?

A bit of history on this issue...

Adobe Illustrator allows you to export your Illustrator document in a Photoshop document. However, composed of paths (not composed Forms - see this article for the not-so-great explanations in comparing the two), which is the default attribute that is applied to the entire base of the Illustrator vector objects, do not convert to vector objects when the exported document is opened in Photoshop. On the contrary, vector objects in Illustrator get flattened in raster in Photoshop layers, which makes them poor candidates to refine the design in Photoshop.

Two possibilities:

Start with a simple form of compound and use it as the beginning of each new path:

  1. Polygon tool: Mousedown. Drag. Press the arrow key down until you have a triangle. MouseUp.
  2. White pointer: click on one of the sides of the triangle. Remove. (Now you have an open path from the 2 segment.)
  3. Filling: any color. Stroke: No.
  4. Flyout menu of the Pathfinder palette: make the compound shape.
  5. Drag the path just beyond the origin of the artboard (or any other convenient location).
  6. Copy.

Whenever you start a new path, start it to make a paste (Ctrl V) or in AltDragging a copy of the original. Then start edit the pasted path, which is already a form of compound.

OR

Use a (macro) Action to apply the form of compound to do after you have drawn the paths:

  1. Draw two paths. Select the first.
  2. Actions palette: start recording.
  3. Flyout menu of the Pathfinder palette > make compound shape.
  4. Select > next object above.
  5. Stop recording.

Now, when you finish a drawing:

  1. Layers palette: select the object down.
  2. Actions palette: click several times on the button Action run (or put the palette in button Mode and click the button several times).

As with all in Illustrator, in guard abound:

  • Why there is no control loop for Actions is beyond me. So if you want to, you can duplicate the two steps in Action, say, nine times and it will convert it 10 paths by clicking.
  • Using the method of Action, select it > next object above command will not pass between the layers. So if the paths are on different layers, you will have to manually do the bottom, select object for each layer.
  • As you probably know, if forms of Compound Illustator have strokes, fills not only, Photoshop shape layers resulting have paths, but lose the fills and strokes. So the above two methods works best if the Illustrator paths are filled and outline before converting into shapes composed.
  • Illustrator Javascript considers that a form of compound a PluginItem. Therefore, it is conceivable that we could script the conversion of a simple path that is composed in a form by using the method sendScriptMessage() of the app object. But you must know the right settings for the plugin, I did not.
  • If only you could invoke an Action of a Javascript of Illustrator, you can just use a Javascript to loop intelligenty through objects and perform the Action for each... but this is an another big 'if only '.

JET

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