Illustrator Extendscript Set Fill Opacity Of Selection

Is there any way to access a pathItem's fill opacity with javascript? I can access the overall opacity, but I want to lower the opacity of the fill while keeping the stroke fully o

Solution 1:

You cannot access it, as you cannot access it normally even in illustrator. This is a Photoshop property only. I checked the documentation as well just to make sure. What you could do is this though and it would accomplish same thing:

doc = app.activeDocument;
i = 0var selection = doc.selection[i];
var storedColor = doc.selection[i].fillColor;

//new object with only fill, we send it to back so it doesn't overlap stroke, if there is onevar newObject = app.selection[i].duplicate(doc, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
//turn off fill for first object
doc.selection[i].filled = false;
i = i + 1;
newObject.stroked = false;
//apply stored color from earlier to new shape
newObject.fillColor = storedColor;
newObject.opacity = 50;
newObject.name = "50p fill";

Solution 2:

What I did to solve the problem is to apply a spotcolor to the objects where I uses the tint property

var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var selectedObjects = docRef.selection;
var theTint;
var fillwithSwatch = function (pathItems, sname ){

for (var i=0;i< pathItems.length; i++){
pathItems[i].fill = true;
theTint = pathItems[i].fillColor.gray;
pathItems[i].fillColor = docRef.swatches.getByName ( sname ).color ;
pathItems[i].fillColor.tint = theTint; 
}
}
theTint = fillTint(selectedObjects);
// the spotcolor should be in the swatchpallet already
fillwithSwatch (selectedObjects, "myBlue" );