I have been looking to create some example scripts which would do simple things like rotate a selected object, but the AppleScript dictionary for Pixelmator Pro 2 seems to be limited to rotating the entire document??
Is it really not possible to rotate an object via AppleScript??
I created another script to add a basic vignette to a selected layer, but that also failed
Are there any example scripts for rotating objects and adding vignettes which anyone knows of - it would be much appreciated.
Thank you all in advance.
Applescripting in Pixelmator Pro 2?
2020-11-27 09:12:10
Hey Richard, to rotate objects, you don't need a special command, you set the layer's rotation property. Like so:
tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
set the rotation of layer 1 to 45
end tell
end tell
As for adding a vignette, that's one of the properties of the color adjustments of a layer and there are four in total: the vignette itself which is a boolean (true or false), and three properties which take integer values, i.e. vignette exposure, vignette black point, and vignette softness. So to simply enable the default vignette, you'd use:tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
set the vignette of the color adjustments of layer 1 to true
end tell
end tell
If you wanted to set all the options, the code would look something like this:tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
set the vignette of the color adjustments of layer 1 to true
set the vignette exposure of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 60
set the vignette black point of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 10
set the vignette softness of the color adjustments of layer 1 to 90
end tell
end tell
And if you were to tidy that up a little to remove some repetition, it would look like this:tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
tell the color adjustments of layer 1
set its vignette to true
set its vignette exposure to 60
set its vignette black point to 10
set its vignette softness to 90
end tell
end tell
end tell
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2020-11-27 21:00:43
I created the script below, expecting it to rotate counter-clockwise, but it rotates clockwise?
I also have this code which I expected to rotate clockwise, but it rotates counter clockwise?
UPDATE:
This also happens when the arrange tool is selected, and you change the rotation from there!
Positive numbers rotate counter-clockwise, and negative numbers rotate clockwise!
Please tell me this is a bug, and not intentional???
tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
set the rotation of layer 1 to -90
end tell
end tell
I also have this code which I expected to rotate clockwise, but it rotates counter clockwise?
tell application "Pixelmator Pro"
tell the front document
set the rotation of layer 1 to 90
end tell
end tell
Unless I'm very much mistaken - this seems to be completely unintuitive, and illogical??UPDATE:
This also happens when the arrange tool is selected, and you change the rotation from there!
Positive numbers rotate counter-clockwise, and negative numbers rotate clockwise!
Please tell me this is a bug, and not intentional???
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