My company is changing some aspects of our setup files. We have THOUSANDS. I have written a working script to work through all of them.
SPEED:
When I start the script I'll get as many as 10 per minute, but as the batch goes on it gets slower and slower. I let it run over night and it was down to one file every three minutes.
Right now my bandaid for this is to run 50 files at a time.
STABILITY:
When the script is finished I have to force quit illustrator because it is locked up.
I'm running IllustratorCC2015 on a mac OS X 10.10.5
I've wrapped the whole script in a function, and added $.gc(); garbage collection commands because of some tips I found here on the forum. Any advice on either issue would be most welcome. Here is my code.
// Main Code [Execution of script begins here]
regRemv();
function regRemv(){ // uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs // app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS; // establish save options var saveOptions = new IllustratorSaveOptions(); saveOptions.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR15; var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile; // Select the source folder. sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files you want to process'); // 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, *.eps', '*' ); // Get all files matching the pattern files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType ); if ( files.length > 0 ){ // Get the destination to save the files //destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the converted PDF files.', '~' ); destFolder = sourceFolder; for ( h = 0; h < files.length; h++ ){ sourceDoc = app.open(files[h]); // returns the document object var idoc = sourceDoc; var straypoints = []; for (n=0; n<idoc.pathItems.length; n++) { var ipath = idoc.pathItems[n]; if (ipath.pathPoints.length==1) straypoints.push(ipath); } for (m=0; m<idoc.textFrames.length; m++) { var itext = idoc.textFrames[m]; if (itext.textRange.length==0) straypoints.push(itext); } for (k=0; k<straypoints.length; k++){ straypoints[k].remove(); } var pi = idoc.pathItems; var tf = idoc.textFrames; createGuideDie() var sw = idoc.swatches['Guide-die']; // text frames with registration color change to die color. for (var t=tf.length -1; t>=0; t--) { var iTxtFrm = tf[t]; var firstLtr = iTxtFrm.characters[0]; var chars = iTxtFrm.characters; if (iTxtFrm.layer.visible === true && iTxtFrm.layer.locked === false && iTxtFrm.hidden === false && iTxtFrm.locked === false && firstLtr.characterAttributes.fillColor.typename === "SpotColor" && firstLtr.characterAttributes.fillColor.spot.name === "[Registration]"){ for (var c=0; c<chars.length; c++) { var ltr = chars[c]; ltr.characterAttributes.fillColor = sw.color; } } } for (var i=pi.length -1; i>=0; i--) { var ipath = pi[i]; if (ipath.layer.visible === true && ipath.layer.locked === false && ipath.hidden === false && ipath.locked === false && ipath.stroked === true && ipath.strokeColor.typename === "SpotColor" && ipath.strokeColor.spot.name === "[Registration]"){ // ipath.strokeColor = sw.color; ipath.remove(); // ipath.stroked = false; } else if (ipath.layer.visible === true && ipath.layer.locked === false && ipath.hidden === false && ipath.locked === false && ipath.stroked === false && ipath.filled === false && Math.round(ipath.height) === 18 && Math.round(ipath.width) === 18){ ipath.remove() } } var here = sourceDoc.fullName; sourceDoc.saveAs( here, saveOptions ); sourceDoc.close(); $.gc(); $.gc(); } } } else { alert( 'No matching files found' ); } $.gc(); // app.executeMenuCommand('closeAll'); app.beep(); alert(h + " finished processing"); function createGuideDie(){ if (!doesColorExist('Guide-die')){ // Create CMYKColor var cmykColor = new CMYKColor(); cmykColor.cyan = 28; cmykColor.magenta = 56; cmykColor.yellow = 0; cmykColor.black = 37; // Create Spot var spot = idoc.spots.add(); spot.color = cmykColor; spot.colorType = ColorModel.SPOT; spot.name = 'Guide-die'; } } function doesColorExist(){ var clrs = idoc.swatches; for (var i=0;i<clrs.length;i++){ if (clrs[i].name==='Guide-die'){ return true; } } return false; }
}
$.gc();