fill color using a script.
I'm trying to create a script in CS5 mac os10.6.8 that will change the fill color of selected pathItems. I need a simple script that will change a selected pathItem to cmyk values 2,3,15,0. I will then...
View ArticleAny great Javascript training available online?
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...
View ArticleImporting Color to Swatch Library from Text File
Hi,I have a large list of custom colors in Excel that has the color name and CMYK breakdown of each color. I'm looking for a way to import this information to create a custom Color Swatch Library. That...
View ArticleCreate Id:s on all types of objects
I have a long process to walk through a couple weeks.... I will create an text export script and an text import script.I am new beginner I have been written many scripts in vba, for (Excel and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Want to print the Links in my Artboard
Hi All, I would like to print the links which were embedded as links with a particular artboard.Please see the below snapshot. The Image name at the top left which is shown in the bar I want to print...
View ArticleFont replacement
Hi, I'm changing one font to another font by using the below codes with iteration of stories and textRanges. But its not replacing this font("Euclid"). When I used "Helvetica" instead of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
I need to modify 1000 ai files
Hi!, I have a folder with 400 files AI and an Excel with 1000 rows, each .ai file containing a textframe with a "note" assigned, I need is a script to help me open a .ai file called "001.ai" and...
View ArticleScript for automatically renaming Illustrator swatches
Hi All, Not sure if this is possible but I'm trying to find a way to automatically rename certain swatches that are in my swatches pallet in Illustrator CC. I work in the POS industry and deal with...
View ArticleBatching In Illustrator??
In PhotoShop CS3, you can select File/Automate/Batch, and run an Action on an entire folder. I don't see that option in Illustrator CS3? Is there a way to run an action on an entire folder? I'm...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Reworking Photoshop layer renaming script for Illustrator
The Photoshop scripting guru Paul R over at RetouchPro has created a really cool script to batch rename and number selected Photoshop layers. I haven't found anything similar on the Illustrator side....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Error 21 (Changing color on text)
http://forums.adobe.com/message/5580527#5580527 Carlos wrote a script in response to the above thread. It changes CMYK black, and grayscale black to a swatch called "spot black". It's awesome, but it's...
View ArticleClik here to view.
an Illustrator error occurred: 1346458189 ('PARM')
Hello everyone, I am trying to open some documents in Illustrator CS4 by javascript, walk through all layers including sublayers, doing something (for now just reading the layernames and showing them...
View ArticleBatch combine files into one illustrator document - how to open target document?
I am making a script which will: 1) Open a folder of Illustrator files2) Open each file in the folder (these files are called the source files)3) Select all the contents of the source file4) Copy the...
View ArticleCalling functions from UI palette
Hello,From what I understand, you can't call complex functions from a scripted UI palette, only from "dialog" windows (which are usless in my case) because I need the persistance of a palette. I have...
View ArticleScript for making an object the artboard size.
I am looking for some help on trying to make an object the exact size of the artboard. This is something I do on a daily basis for several different reasons and it would be very helpful if this can...
View ArticleExtract text from illustrator for translation then replace with translated text
I am trying to find a way to expedite translations of our drawings. Each drawing has a series of callouts showing what that piece of the drawing is via text. I would need to do 100's of drawings for...
View ArticleResize and Batch Resize to Art Bounds
I created a script that resizes the art board of the active document to the art bounds size, and also a companion script that does it in batch. Useful if you have dozens, hundreds, or thousands of *.ai...
View ArticleSetting Color and Overprint for a placed image (it is a Grayscaled image)
So I am trying to set the color of an image I have placed to a spot color then set it to overprint fill.I have successfully created a rectangle and added these attributes to it. But I cant seam to get...
View Articleduplicate layer to different document
Hi All, I'm new to javascript and would like a little help please!! I recently found a script that creates a new layer in the active document and then duplicates the contents of 'Layer 1' of the active...
View ArticleIllustrator script to create symbols from images in folder
Time to give back to the community...Here is a script I recently devised to bulk create symbols from images in a folder. Tested with Illustrator CC 2014. // Import Folder's Files as Symbols -...
View Article