B. Scripting Support for Perspective Drawing
Adobe Illustrator provides scripting capabilities to automate workflows. The scripting interface in Illustrator supports VBScript on Windows; AppleScript on Mac OS; and JavaScript, a platform-independent scripting language. This section describes the program’s scripting capabilities for perspective drawing in detail.
The SDK provides an API for working with the perspective grid programmatically; in addition, the application provides a scripting interface that has some access to this API layer. A script can:
• Define a grid in a document using presets
• Show or hide the grid
• Get/Set the active plane
• Draw an object in perspective on the active plane
• Bring an object into perspective
The examples ...
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