So I am familiar with Photoshop actions and such.
Illustrator doesn’t differ that much… But I do have a problem.
When I draw a circle and want to make the line dotted (line options – dotted). Then this doesn’t work with an Action.
I think it might have something to do with the language setting (Dutch) which I can’t change to English . (Tried several options and several versions of Illustrator)
Can someone with an English Illustrator help me and verify if the Action works there?
Of not… then it is just a malfunction of the software.
I know that Lightburn can also do dotted lines but they don’t have a layout option of the dots like illustrator .
In Illustrator there are basically 2 options for the dotted line.
1 Just equal distance all over the path,. not taking any angles into consideration.
and
Taking corners and edges into consideration; This way the dots are lined up in the corners
Lightburn does basically option #1 and that is not always desired for me.
It took me some tinkering.
But I found a work around.
There seems to be a bug in Illustrator when making a dotted line in an action. (it switches two numbers in line properties)
Not sure if that is in every illustrator version or just a language thing.
I got my action to work And that is what I was after!
And that is what I was after! 