Fucking Illustrator.

I and my work pay megabucks for a version of your program, lOSE HOURS OF WORK and then you do NOTHING to actually solve it’s problems except come out with CS4 which they then want more money for.

If they had ANY sense of justice they would give extremely cheap upgrade vouchers for those struggling with the HORROR that is Illy CS3.

http://www.zerflin.com/Benjamin/YoungSavage/2008/10/21/autosave-for-illustrator-autosave-for-flash-autosave-for-any-program-really/

le sigh

(* Version 1.0 26 June 2008 Script by Stuart James *)

property userRep : 30 property idleInterval : 1800 — 30 minutes property saveType : “EPS” — type of document

on idle tell application “Finder” to set myStrator to (name of application process 1 whose creator type = “ART5″) as text

if myStrator = "" then
    -- do not do anything
else
    using terms from application "Illustrator CS"
        tell application myStrator
            if exists current document then
                try
                    file path of current document
                    save current document
                on error
                    set documents to choose file name
                    if saveType = "EPS" then
                        save current document in myfile as eps
                    else if saveType = "PDF" then
                        save current document in myfile as pdf
                    else
                        save current document in myfile
                    end if
                end try
            end if
        end tell
    end using terms from
end if
return idleInterval

end idle

on run set userRep to choose from list {5, 15, 30, 45, 60} default items userRep with prompt “Set the interval between saves in minutes” cancel button name “Cancel” without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed if userRep = false then set userRep to 30 set idleInterval to (userRep * 60) set saveType to choose from list {“EPS”, “PDF”, “AI”} default items saveType with prompt “Select format to save file to” cancel button name “Cancel” without multiple selections allowed and empty selection allowed if saveType = false then set saveType to “EPS” set saveType to saveType as text end run