PathItem

A path or drawing object, such as the outline of a shape or a straight or curved line, which contains sub paths defining its geometry.

Access through the collection in the Document.pathItems property. For example, this selects a named path item:

const currentPathItem = app.activeDocument.pathItems.getByName("myPath");
currentPathItem.select()
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1const currentPathItem = app.activeDocument.pathItems.getByName("myPath");
2currentPathItem.select()

Create these objects by passing a set of SubPathInfo objects to the PathItems.add() method. This method creates a SubPathItem object for each SubPathInfo object, and creates and returns a new PathItem object for the path represented by all of the subpaths.

Properties

Name	Type	Access	Min Version	Description
docId	number	R	23.3	The ID of the document of this pathItem.
id	number	R	23.3	For use with batchPlay operations. This pathItem ID, along with its document ID can be used to represent this pathItem for the lifetime of this document.
kind	PathKind	R W	23.3	The specific kind of path.
name	string	R W	23.3	Name of this path
parent	Document	R	23.3	The document in which the path resides.
subPathItems	SubPathItems	R	23.3	The contained SubPathItems in this path.
typename	string	R	23.3	The class name of the referenced object: "PathItem".

Methods

deselect

23.3

Promise<void>

Deselects this pathItem object.

duplicate

23.3

Promise<PathItem>

Duplicates the pathItem object with the new name, returning the duplicate.

Parameters

Name	Type
`name?`	string

fillPath

23.3

Promise<void>

Fills the area enclosed by this path.

opacity is a percentage, in the [0.0 ... 100.0] range.

feather is in pixels, in the [0.0 ... 250.0] range.

If wholePath is true, all subpaths are used when doing the fill.

Parameters

Name	Type	Default value
`fillColor?`	SolidColor	-
`mode?`	ColorBlendMode	-
`opacity`	number	100.0
`preserveTransparency`	boolean	false
`feather`	number	0.0
`wholePath`	boolean	true
`antiAlias`	boolean	true

makeClippingPath

23.3

Promise<void>

Makes this the clipping path for this document.

flatness tells the PostScript printer how to approximate curves in the path.

Parameters

Name	Type
`flatness?`	number

makeSelection

23.3

Promise<void>

Makes a selection object whose border is this path.

feather is in pixels, in the range [0.0...250.0]

operation, by default, is SelectionType.REPLACE

Parameters

Name	Type
`feather?`	number
`antiAlias?`	boolean
`operation?`	SelectionType

remove

23.3

Promise<void>

Deletes this object.

select

23.3

Promise<void>

Makes this the active or selected PathItem object.

strokePath

23.3

Promise<void>

Strokes the path with the specified tool

tool is optional, and by default will use ToolType.PENCIL

simulatePressure is false by default.

If the tool is ToolType.CLONESTAMP or ToolType.HEALINGBRUSH, sourceOrigin must be provided as a an object with x and y properties (in pixels) to indicate the location of the stroke source. sourceLayer is optional, and by default will use the active layer in the document.