Ответ: Скрипты
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What about actions?
Illustrator actions are different from scripts. An Illustrator action is a series of tasks you have recorded while
using the application—menu choices, tool choices, object selection, and other commands. When you
“play” an action, Illustrator performs all of the recorded commands.
You record, play, edit, and delete actions using the built-in Actions palette. The “Automating Tasks” chapter
in the Adobe Illustrator User Guide covers actions in detail.
With the introduction of scripting for Illustrator, it is important to avoid any confusion about the difference
between actions and scripting. Actions and scripts are both ways of automating repetitive tasks, but they
work very differently. The following points summarize the key differences.
● Actions use a program’s user interface to do their work. As an action runs, menu choices are executed,
objects are selected, and recorded paths are created. Scripts do not use a program’s user interface to
perform tasks, and can execute faster than actions.
● Actions have very limited facilities for getting and responding to information. You cannot add
conditional logic to an action. Therefore, actions cannot make decisions based on the current situation.
Scripts are capable of getting information and making decisions and calculations based on the
information they receive from Illustrator.
● A script can execute an action, but actions cannot execute scripts.
То ли у меня напряг с аглицким, то ли у разработчиков.
