Adobe Illustrator Dictionary

[Publi-Script (Michel Lemieux)]

Hi all,

I am unable to open/view the dictionary for Adobe Illustrator 2020 and 2021.
I can only view the one from 2019.

Am I doing something wrong?

[ShaneStanley]

It’s a problem with Illustrator. see:

Adobe Illustrator Reference Library Not Working

Hi all, I’m new to this forum and new to AppleScript in general. So please go easy on me. I recently upgraded to a paid version of Script Debugger and noticed that once I did so I was no longer able to connect to the Adobe Illustrator Dictionary / Object Model. Not sure if this is a Script Debugger issue or something on Adobe’s end (I suspect the latter as I noticed a similar issue when using Script Editor, but am wondering if anyone has any suggestions as to how I might go about fixing this? …

Please report it to Adobe.

[msv (Marco Stefano Vaccaroli)]

hi
for me it is working
from script debugger choose file>open dictionary>application…
and browse to illustrator application

[Publi-Script (Michel Lemieux)]

Thank you for your reply Marco but doing this crashes Script Debugger

[ionah (Jonas Whale)]

Bonjour Michel,

Go to Preferences>Dictionary Tab.
Click on ‘Clear Cache’.

If it does not help, try to uncheck ‘Cache generated dictionaries’, quit & restart SD.

[Publi-Script (Michel Lemieux)]

Thanks for your reply Jonas,

These still make SD crash… ;-(

[alldritt (Mark Alldritt)]

I don’t see any Crash Reports for this problem from you Michel. Please submit any future crash reports and I’ll look into the cause.

[estockly (Ed Stockly)]

Does it still crash when you try Shane’s solution from the other thread?

@ShaneStanley

The latest issue of Illustrator (I’m looking at version 25.2) does have a problem — they appear not to have included a value that tells the OS (and editors) that it is scriptable.

You can open the dictionary file directly. You’ll need to control-click on the app’s icon and choose Show Package Contents. Then in the Contents/Resources/ folder, you will see a file called Adobe Illustrator.sdef. Drag this file over Script Debugger’s icon in the Dock.

Control-click on it in Script Debugger’s dictionary window and choose Favorite, so you don’t have to do this each time want to look at it.

And please report the problem to Adobe (tell them its Info.plist file is missing its NSAppleScriptEnabled entry).

[Publi-Script (Michel Lemieux)]

yes but Explorer is still grayed out

[Publi-Script (Michel Lemieux)]

Hi Mark,
you should have received one by now

[ShaneStanley]

FYI, this seems to be fixed with version 25.2.2.