Chapter 1. Introduction

This reference describes the objects and commands in the Adobe® Illustrator® CS2 JavaScript type library.

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What’s in this book

This book contains the following sections:

  • This introduction, which describes scripting support in Adobe Illustrator CS2, and lists changes to the JavaScript interface since the previous release.

  • Scripting Basics (page 7), which introduces the fundamental concepts of scripting with JavaScript. If you are new to scripting, be sure to read this chapter.

  • Scripting Illustrator (page 17), which ...

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