[feep]

I used it (well, Apple events, lower in the AppleScript stack) to generate piles of PDFs for from Quark for clients. Later book automation.

It was super handy for that sort of thing.

Sort of miss it, in a maybe-masochist kind of way.

Open tools to HTML are much nicer. And much less bizarre.

If anyone has some hairy InDesign or Quark or Illustrator thing they need automated, let me know.

...

...personally? lots of useful hotkeys.

But the shit keyboards finally drove me away. Linux on a XPS13 now.

I don't miss AppleScript the language. But I do miss the fact that it was sorta built into everything by default.

[leemailll]

I use Illustrator lightly for 10 years but never know it support Applescript, will take a look at it.

[feep]

If you're entirely within Illustrator, you're probably better off using Adobe's javascript API. Better cross-platform, better language, faster (less process switching overhead).

It has pretty good AppleScript coverage (from looking at the dictionary) but I've never used most of it.

Mostly used AppleScript to call 'do javascript'.

[leemailll]

I know JS part for years, but never read anything about Applescript. Thanks for the heads-up, I guess I'll pass it for now

[feep]

Good plan.

The AppleScript support was there maybe even before Illustrator was available for Windows.

Not going to look at either API. And, I don't have a current Illustrator.

...but I can guess with certainty that the javascript API gets more attention within Adobe. And that it has a more solid future.

AppleScript may never disappear from Illustrator or macOS. But it _does not_ have a bright, vibrant future.