Hi,
I work with technical drawings...90% of my time is changing the numbers on the drawing. I take the PDF that was created in UG/NX and then open that in Illustrator to make formatting changes, and number changes.
What I would love, is to have a script that will let me take an excel file, text file (something) the file would list the current numbers and list the new numbers, and have the illustrator script switch all the numbers at once.
I know there is the find and replace but that takes too long, and I have to worry about if I'm changing 2 to 5, that it's not going to change 20 to 50. Even with the script that would be a concern.
Is what I want even doable with a script, and do you have any suggestions on how to get started? I have someone who can help me with the code, just want to see if it's even possible.
Sample list would look something like,
Old number, New Number
1, 5
2, 6
3, 7
4, 8
5, 9
6, 10
7, 11
8, 12
9, 13
10,
11, 14
12, 15
13, 16
15,
16, 17
Numbers can go into the 400's
TIA
Karleen