[Alan Wasem]

thank you! changing comp settings to preserve frame rate and then empty cache worked for me!

[Alan Wasem]

I have a MacBook with bluetooth keyboard and I thought I was having the same issue. It turns out caps lock was turned on but on my MacBook keyboard, but it was turned off on my bluetooth keyboard, I don’t know what portion of hardware or software wasn’t working but AE thought CAPS was turning right back on when I would toggle it on my bluetooth keyboard… when I finally noticed I turned it off using MacBook keyboard and all is well.

[Alan Wasem]

I have found that the cursor will change on when using puppet pin tool when you enable collapse transformations ( https://www.digitalsandwich.net/portfolio/ae-quicktip-collapse-transformations/ )on a precomp or an imported AI file. It also breaks scripts that use the pins such as RubberHose by BattleAxe because it changes the bounding box size of the layers.

[Alan Wasem]

that was totally it! Thank you! I just had to turn off smart quotes in text edit.

[Alan Wasem]

Hi I am trying to modify this script by changing the ‘ca’ to something else more relevant to my project in this case ‘PBW’. But I get this error whenever I change it. 

could someone tell me why this is happening? I would love to be able to rename layers and change the names according to my project.

#target illustrator
 
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
 
with (docRef) {
for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {
layers[i].name = 'ca' + (layers.length - i).toString();
}
}

 #target illustrator
 
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
 
with (docRef) {
for (var i = 0; i < layers.length; i++) {
layers[i].name = ‘PBW’ + (layers.length - i).toString();
}
}