Does anyone know how one would go about ungrouping all groups on an active layer with JavaScript?

Hi everybody,

I'm trying to create a script via javascript for Illustrator.

My problem is :

I have a AI file with multiple layers, i want to create one artboard per layer, in order to export a multipage PDF ( each page contain 1 layer ).

The layers represents the differents type of print ( vernish, color, hot gold, pressure ... ) and/or color type ( Pantone, CMYK, cut, kisscut ... ).

My client want a PDF for see each type of print or color type per page.

I'm trying 2 ways :

1st solution : Create new artboards, and duplicate ( or move ) layers content on the new artboad, but the function move/duplicate don't work to move content on another artboard.

2nd solution : Create new document with the same number of layers as artboard and duplicate layer to the new artboard on the new document.

Can you help me to realize this script ?

Excuse me if my english is not good.

I need to assign specific font to my text and it doesn't work. What am I doing wrong:

var my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame = myInstrLayer.textFrames.add();
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.geometricBounds = ["1.6 in", "1 in", "1.85 in", "2.75 in"];
my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.contents = "OUTSIDE";

var myParagraph = my_OUTSIDE_TextFrame.paragraphs.item(0);
try{
myParagraph.appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Myriad Pro");

}
catch(e){}
try{
myParagraph.fontStyle = "Bold";
}
catch(e){}

myParagraph.pointSize = 30;

And it's not placing it where I want it either.

Thank you very much for your help.

Yulia

I have created this script for selecting open paths in illustrator cs6 as the graffix plugin is not working under CS6.

Just save the following text in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Presets/en_US/Scripts/Select Open Paths.js

if (documents.length > 0 && activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0){

          var allPaths = activeDocument.pathItems;

          var allPathsCount = allPaths.length;

          var openPathsAreLocked = false;

          var lockedOpenPaths = 0;

          var locked = false;

          for (var i=0; i < allPathsCount; i++){

                    allPaths[ i ].selected = false;

                    if( ! allPaths[ i ].closed){

                              try{

                                        allPaths[ i ].selected = true;

                              } catch (e) {

                                        openPathsAreLocked = true;

                                        lockedOpenPaths++;

                              }

                    }

          }

          if (openPathsAreLocked) alert (lockedOpenPaths + " open paths are locked or hidden (or their layer is locked or hidden) and cannot be selected");

}

Hi,

I am an artist who appreciates the awesome power of Javascript, and I have come to realize how great it would be to become proficient in it.

I wanted to ask this community:

1. Can you recommend any really excellent Javascript training for beginners?

2. Can you recommend any really excellent Javascript ILLUSTRATOR training for beginners?

These resources can be free or paid for, either way.

I have used Lynda.com before and video tutorials are great.  I am open to anything (Web, books, DVDs) I am even considering classes taught locally.

Suggestions?

Thanks!

Dave

I am trying to export layers to SVG, but I need to access the "Use Artboards" option in my ExportType.SVG options.  I do not see it in the Javascript reference: http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/pdf/illustrator/scrip ting/cs6/Illustrator-Scripting-Reference-JavaScript.pdf

Suggestions?

Thank you guys so much!

var win = new Window("palette", "SnpCreateProgressBar", undefined);
win.pnl = win.add("panel", undefined, "Script Progress");
win.pnl.progBarLabel = win.pnl.add("statictext", undefined, "0%");

var btn = win.pnl.add ("button", undefined, "Cancel");
btn.onClick = function() { win.close(0); }

win.show();

var i = 0;
while(i < 200) {   win.pnl.progBarLabel.text = i + "%";   $.sleep(30);   win.update();   i++;
//   activeDocument.textFrames[0].contents = i + "";   redraw();
}

alert('Done!');

win.close();

button not work

MacOS

Giveway tothe user to break the script

Download Link

http://www.cyworld.com/be2u/2801831

Feature

This Script  is Can be easily  ungrouping to all group items in the Document.

if find Bugs or Error, contact to me plz.

License type

Freeware

Author

Nokcha

Author Contact

netbluew@gmail.com

Author website

http://be2u.tistory.com

http://www.cyworld.com/be2u

Date published

june 30, 2009

Compatible product

Illustrator

I have a two-part question.  One, I need to know why Illustrator displays embedded images at 72 dpi.  Two, how can I retreive an image's correct size and/or resolution?  Illustrator has the information contained somewhere, I see it being displayed in this window:

Is there a reason it returns the incorrect "Dimensions" when I ask for the width of a rasterItem?

I'm using ExtendscriptToolkit 2 to write jsx to control Illustrator CS4.

Thank you!!!

I'd really appreciate it if people in the community could see if my test script produces the PARM error consistently on their installs of Illustrator and if anyone could spot some problem that might explain why the error occurs.

I'm really stuck with constant PARM errors popping up at random times through my application. After the error occurs Illustrator has to be exited and restarted otherwise it'll always error out on every JavaScript execution.

Basically, I have a big application that interfaces with Adobe by  mapping buttons in an application to javascripts. Its practically  unusable.due to the PARM errors.

It's something like "an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM')"

I can reproduce the error with a cut down script but can't find anything wrong in what I'm doing. Adobe won't even look at the script where I can reproduce the error even on a paid support incident. According to Adobe they don't support javascript even though it's the JavaScript engine in Illustrator that's crashing.

I'm using Adobe CS5 (15.0.2 currently) in a Windows environment. Generally I'm testing in Windows 7 64-bit but Windows XP 32 bit has the same issue.

Hopefully someone can spot something I've just been doing wrong because I can't. If it's a bug then I'm out of luck since I can't even talk to anyone to report it.

I was able to create a simple example where a couple of groupItems are copied from an open document and pasted to a new document, moved to a specific group, and then removed. In reality there would be lots of formatting on the new document before the group is removed but it crashes even without doing all of that.

Here is a zip with the test script and the test document. Just open the testScript.jsx in ExtendScript Tool Kit and open testdocument.ai in Adobe Illustrator. Execute the script and it tells you how many times the test ran before it errored out. Generally this happens for me in less than 10 iterations of the test but occasionally it won't error out after 100 runs.

testLayout.zip on DropBox

Here's the test script itself in case someone can spot something obvious.

#target Illustrator

function createLayout(names) {
    var intResult = 1;

    var docPreset = new DocumentPreset;
    docPreset.units = RulerUnits.Inches;
    docPreset.width = 612.0;
    docPreset.height = 792.0;
    docPreset.title = "Test Document";
    docPreset.colorMode = DocumentColorSpace.CMYK;
   
    var doc = app.activeDocument;
    doc.selection = null;
     
    try {
        var printDoc = app.documents.addDocument(DocumentColorSpace.CMYK,docPreset);

        app.activeDocument = printDoc;
        var layerArt = printDoc.layers[0];
        layerArt.name = 'artwork';
        printDoc.activeLayer = layerArt;
        var grpSource = layerArt.groupItems.add();
        grpSource.name = 'source';
        app.activeDocument = doc;
        for(var i = 0;i < names.length;i++) {
            var layerSections = doc.layers['section' + names[i]];
            var grpSection = layerSections.groupItems[0];
            grpSection.selected = true;
        }

        copy();

        app.activeDocument = printDoc;
        printDoc.activeLayer = layerArt;
       
        paste();
       
        printDoc.selection = null;

        for(var i = layerArt.pageItems.length - 1; i >= 0;i--) {
            var grp = layerArt.pageItems[i];
            if(grp.name != 'source') {
               var  box = grp.pathItems['bgbox'];
                box.height = box.height - 18.0;
                box.position = [box.position[0],box.position[1] - 9.0];
                // Omitting the move of pasted group into destination group avoids PARM error
                grp.move(grpSource,ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
            }   
        }

       //  Commenting out the remove line and setting the hidden property seems less likely to cause a PARM error
       grpSource.remove();
       //grpSource.hidden = true;

       app.redraw();

       printDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);
      
       intResult = 0;
       app.activeDocument = doc;

    }
    catch(e) {
        alert('error:\n' + e);
        intResult = 1;
    }
    return intResult;
}

function main() {
    var names = ['Left','Right'];

    var counter = 0;
    var result = 0;
    while (counter < 100) {
        var result = createLayout(names);
        if (result == 1) {
            alert('script failed after ' + counter + ' runs');
            break;
        }
        counter = counter + 1;
        app.redraw();
    }
    if(result == 0) {
        alert('test produced no errors');
    }
    return result;
}

main();

As the comments in the script state, if I set hidden on a group instead of removing it I avoid the PARM error. If I don't move the pasted groups into the group that will be removed it doesn't crash either. However, for a test I can do this but it doesn't explain why it causes the error. I can look at rewriting parts of my many scripts to not remove any groups but I don't know that it would be effective. I tried another test where I just created objects from a new document only, moved them around, deleted them, etc. but couldn't get the PARM error to pop up just from doing that.

Does anyone know of a script that will automatically put dimensions on rectangular shapes in Illustrator CS6?

Hi everyone!

First off: I am not a programmer. Just playing around with code and trying to get it to work for a specific task:

Here is a script made for the purpose of inserting a text with the file name in over 600 pdf files. This is suppose to work on all files in a selected folder.

The problem: Illustrator crashes.

A first test code worked but after a few edited files Illustrator crashed, so I tried to introduce a delay after each save in order to slow down the batch process.

$.setTimeout(function () {sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES)}, 1000);

Unfortunately I did not save the working (almost working ) first test code.

No idea what to do next. The code works if I delete this line: sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);

Here is the complete script:

var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, layers, writeText, finLabel;

// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files you want to convert to PNG', '~' );

// If a valid folder is selected
if ( sourceFolder != null )
{
files = new Array();
fileType = prompt( 'Select type of Illustrator files to you want to process. Eg: *.ai', '*.pdf' );

// Get all files matching the pattern
files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType );

if ( files.length > 0 )
for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
{    sourceDoc = app.open(files[i]); // returns the document object    layers = unlock();    writeText = getFilename();    finLabel = remText();    sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);   //if save command line is deleted the code works   WTF???    $.setTimeout(function () {sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES)}, 1000); // still crashes using delay ...
}
//alert( 'Files are saved as PNG in ' + destFolder );

else
{
alert( 'No matching files found' );
}
}

function unlock()
{
   //get the total number of layers in the active document
doc = app.activeDocument;
var totalLayers = doc.layers.length;

//looping on layers to create one artboard per layer
for ( var i = 0 ; i < totalLayers ; i++){       var currentLayer = doc.layers[i];       //We don't want to deal with hidden layers    if(currentLayer.visible == false) continue;       //Unlock the layer if needed    currentLayer.locked = false;

}
    }

function getFilename()
{
// Write text
var pointTextRef = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add();
pointTextRef.contents = app.activeDocument.name + "\n" + "YBS";
pointTextRef.top = 0;
pointTextRef.left = 0;
app.activeDocument.textFrames[0].textRange.characterAttributes.textFont=app.textFonts[31];
       }

function remText()
{
// This works for search and replace :))))))

    var active_doc = app.activeDocument;          var search_string = /_Template.pdf/gi; // g for global search, remove i to make a case sensitive search     var replace_string = '';          var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames;          if (text_frames.length > 0)     {         for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)           {               var this_text_frame = text_frames[i];                var new_string = this_text_frame.contents.replace(search_string, replace_string);                                if (new_string != this_text_frame.contents)                    {                         this_text_frame.contents = new_string;                    }           }     }     
 }

Any ideas about what makes Illustrator crash?

Note: The application crashes after opening the first file.

Thanks for helping out!

Hello,

I'm new in scripting and i need to make a script that moving all layers into a single layer( in Illustrator i press CTRL+A then CTRL+G in layers and works) but i need that in script

Please could somebody help me?

Thanks!

I'm looking to create a script to batch rename a number of artboards.

- I have 100 named layers.

- I have 100 artboards.

- I would like to rename the artboards to match the layer names.

- The layers are organized in the same descending orderas the artboards (ignoring the actual artboard names*).

- The topmost artboard (1 in the list) would be renamed "newspaper", the second artboard would be renamed "typewriter", the third artboard would be renamed "books", etc.

*in the example below the artboard named "Artboard 7" is actually the 6th artboard in list.

Any help would be wonderful.

I am making a script which will:

1) Open a folder of Illustrator files

2) Open each file in the folder (these files are called the source files)

3) Select all the contents of the source file

4) Copy the contents of the source file

5) Paste these contents into a target file as a new layer

6) Ensure the new layer has the same name as the old source file

However, I don't know how to tell Illustrator where my target file is. How can I do this?

Also, when I paste, how can I turn off paste rembers layers. (So the layers get pasted into the new layer that has the same name as the old document).

Here is my code:

// JavaScript Document

 

 

//Set up vairaibles

var destDoc, sourceDoc, sourceFolder;

 

 

// Select the source folder.

sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog('Select the folder with Illustrator files that you want to mere into one', '~');

 

 

// If a valid folder is selected

if (sourceFolder != null) {

          files = new Array();

 

 

          // Get all files matching the pattern

          files = sourceFolder.getFiles();

 

 

          if (files.length > 0) {

                    // Get the destination to save the files

                    destDoc = document.selectDialog('Select the final saved document', '~');

                    for (i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {

                              sourceDoc = app.open(files[i]); // returns the document object

 

                              var myLayers = sourceDoc.layers; // All layers in Active Document

 

 

                              //Go through all layers of source document and copy artwork

                              for (i = 0; i < myLayers.length; i++) {

                                        myLayers[i].hasSelectedArtwork = true;

                              };

 

 

                              with(sourceDoc) {

                                        var count = pageItems.length;

                                        for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {

                                                  pageItems[i].selected = true;

                                        }

                                        redraw();

                                        copy();

                                        for (var i = 0; i < count; i++) {

                                                  pageItems[i].selected = false;

                                        }

 

 

                              }

 

 

                              //Create a new title variable that has the title of the source document

                              var title = sourceDoc.name;

                              var title = title.substring(0, title.length - 4); //(remove extension from name)

                              //Close the Source Document

                              sourceDoc.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES);

 

 

 

 

                              //Open the Destination Document and create a new layer in it that is named after the title variation

                              var newLayer = destDoc.layers.add();

                              newLayer.name = title;

 

 

                              //Paste into this new layer

                              destDoc = app.paste();

 

 

                    }

          }

          else {

                    alert('No matching files found');

          }

 

}

Thanks in advance for any help   

Edit: Also, when pasting, how can I paste in place instead of just pasting.

I have this script by Peter Kahrel that reverese the order of letters in InDesign.

I need an Illustrator version of it. Can anybody help?

---------------------

//ReverseText.jsx

//An InDesign Javascript that reverses the order of any selected text.

//If no text is selected with the Type tool, nothing happens.

//Written by Peter Kahrel for InDesignSecrets.com

//****************

#target indesign

if ( "TextWordLineParagraph".search ( app.selection[0].constructor.name ) < 0 )

    exit();

s = app.selection[0].contents;

s = s.split("").reverse().join("");

app.selection[0].contents = s;

-------------------

Mainly using this for Arabic text in CS 3 and 4 for clients that don't have new versions - and will never buy it apparently.

Works great in InDesign. I've been putting the text in ID and then copying it into Illustrator. But it would be nice to skip that step if possible.

Thanks in advance.

Hi,

Can it be possible to convert .ai file into .doc file or any tool which will do this conversion.

Thanks,

Shail

Using Mac Pro. Have created a vector logo. All good so far. Trying to add text to a round circle shape have got as far as selecting Warp option and typed my text but despite adjusting the scale etc it doesn't seem to look right as it isn't snapping to the circle. I have tried dragging the anchors but that makes it worse!!