{"id":11133,"date":"2015-05-02T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-02T15:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11133"},"modified":"2015-05-02T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2015-05-02T15:56:57","slug":"video-interview-with-mark-alldritt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/02\/video-interview-with-mark-alldritt\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Interview With Mark Alldritt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.automatedworkflows.com\/2015\/04\/29\/automating-adobe-illustrator-with-applescript\/\">Ray Robertson<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/inessential.com\/2015\/04\/30\/video_interview_with_mark_alldritt\">Brent Simmons<\/a>):<\/p><blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.automatedworkflows.com\/2015\/04\/29\/automating-adobe-illustrator-with-applescript\/\"><p>&ldquo;Why on earth would anyone want to script a drawing program?&rdquo; I&rsquo;ll admit that was my first thought when years ago I heard about a plug-in to add AppleScript support to Adobe Illustrator. I could understand how scripting support was essential for page layout programs. But Illustrator was a program for creating art, involving many design decisions that only a graphic artist could make.<\/p><p>I wasn&rsquo;t alone in that thinking. In this interview, Mark Alldritt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latenightsw.com\">Late Night Software<\/a> recounts the story behind adding scripting support to Illustrator and getting people interested[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Most of my Illustrator projects have been developed under non-disclosure agreements since my clients consider Illustrator scripting to be such an important competitive advantage.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Besides the money, work on the plug-in led Mark to develop the basis of one of Script Debugger&rsquo;s best features: The Dictionary Explorer. Because he was &ldquo;too lazy&rdquo; to write scripts to test all functions, he needed a live way to look at an AppleScript dictionary.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Robertson (via Brent Simmons):&ldquo;Why on earth would anyone want to script a drawing program?&rdquo; I&rsquo;ll admit that was my first thought when years ago I heard about a plug-in to add AppleScript support to Adobe Illustrator. I could understand how scripting support was essential for page layout programs. But Illustrator was a program for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[961,159,295,286,30,32,1073],"class_list":["post-11133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-adobe-illustrator","tag-applescript","tag-history","tag-interview","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-script-debugger"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11134,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11133\/revisions\/11134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}