: How to insert text into an Illustrator file using ExtendScript JavaScript I opened my Illustrator file successfully using the below code: var fileRef = new File("E:/project/AH_Portrait.ai"); var docRef

@Yeniel278

You should spend some time on reading what you write:

var doc = app.documents.add(null,width,height);


reads:


from application
take the documents container
add a new document
that we shall call doc from now on


But that's not actually what you want to do you want to:

var f = new File("E:/project/AH_Portrait.ai");
var doc = app.open(f);


reads:


Find file
that we shall call f
open this file in application as document
let use call this document doc from now on


Ok, then the rest of the code works fine. However, there is a few caveats. The handle app is not universally defined to mean Illustrator! So usually you would put the line
#target illustrator


on the first line of your script. Second illustrator height coordinates are positive upwards. So [20,height-50] is actually above your image on most illustrator versions (yeah the 0, 0 used to be in lower left corner back in the day). You should probably do [20,-height+50] instead, but I'm not sure (possibly [20, -50]).

Now then your script becomes:
#target illustrator

var height = 100;

var f = new File("E:/project/AH_Portrait.ai");
var doc = app.open (f)

var text1 = doc.textFrames.pointText( [20,-height+50] );
text1.contents = "Handgloves";


Off course this does not save your result.

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@BetL875

I suppose you're following the tutorial from github.com/jtnimoy/scripting-for-illustrator-tutorial
You need to define the document you want to write your text into. Instead, your code is creating a new document and writing the text on that.

You should use

var doc = app.activeDocument; instead of

var doc = app.documents.add(null,width,height);

if you want to write to the currently open document.

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