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pywin32 Illustrator Throwing Exception Error
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I'm trying to use pywin32 to access Adobe Illustrator through COM. I'm able to access other apps like Photoshop and Excel fine, but no matter how I try to access Illustrator, it always throws the exception: (-2147221005, 'Invalid class string', None, None).

The code:
import win32com.client as win32com
illApp = win32com.Dispatch("Illustrator.Application")

I can use the same code with other COM apps and it works fine. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you!

*PS This is my first post in this forum. I'm a long-time programmer (C/C++, .Net, etc) and recently started using Python for some projects at work. So far, I'm really liking it!
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pywin32 Illustrator Throwing Exception Error - by matthewsjc1 - Aug-26-2021, 01:40 PM

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