Adobe 26001360 Scripting Guide - Page 352

352 Visual Basic Reference Table 5.57 IllustratorSaveOptions - Properties Property R/O Value type What it is EmbedLinkedFiles FlattenOutput FontSubsetThreshold Overprint PDFCompatible Boolean AiOutputFlattening enumeration Double AiPDFOverprint Boolean If true, linked image files should be included in the saved document (only valid for SaveOptions that specify an Illustrator compatibility of version 7 or later) Specifies how transparency should be flattened for file formats older than Illustrator 9 Include a subset of fonts when less than this percentage of characters is used in the document (valid for Illustrator 9 or newer file format) Default: PreservePDFOverprint If true, save as a PDF compatible file (version 10 or later) ( default: true ) Notes IllustratorSaveOptions can only be supplied in conjunction with the SaveAs method. It is not necessary to specify values for all properties. Default values will be provided for any properties not specified. PDFCompatible is only a property of Illustrator 10 or greater. Example 30.1 This example illustrates how to save the frontmost document as Illustrator 8 format. Because the document is saved as a version earlier than 9, the example specifies to convert opacity by breaking paths up in to sub-path to preserve the appearance of the illustration. After the Dim appRef As New Illustrator.Application Dim saveOptions As New Illustrator.IllustratorSaveOptions saveOptions.Compatibility = aiIllustrator8 saveOptions.FlattenOutput = aiPreserveAppearance appRef.Documents(1).SaveAs "C:\temp\Ai8SaveAs.ai", saveOptions 12 Aug 03