Script to round fractional CMYK colours?
This script must exist but I'll be damned if I can find it!!! I work in a large printing company and we get artwork from all over that has dodgy CMYK colours (quick convertions from RGB obviously). We...
View ArticleHow to embed multiple images
Hello! I have been tying to figure out how I could easily embed multiple linked images easily. I have some 1000 .svg images which have about 1-7 .tif images linked in to them. I now need to get those...
View ArticleAi Packaging Script
Ok.. I'm sure this has been posted before (already searched, didn't find however), but does a file packaging script exist for AI? (one that collects all linked images and fonts and places them in one...
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 ArticleHow to save illustrator file without save as dialog ?
I' trying to save a file using app.activeDocument.saveAs(savepath); and i am doing it in a loop on multiple files, but every time it will just show save as window and i have to do it manually. Any...
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 ArticleProblem when passing value to resolution (Export TIFF)
I´m passing by a strange script behaviour. I´m trying to refine a script to export artboards as TIFF. So suppose I started "var op = new ExportOptionsTIFF()" And I set op.resolution = 250 Now I try to...
View ArticleUI (Window, dialog, palette etc) reference info for AI scripting
I'm looking for standard reference info on UI elements like popup windows (dialogs, palettes etc). I've been through the Illustrator CS6 Javascript Scripting reference guide and also the CS6 Scripting...
View ArticleScript: rename layers?
Hi, is there a quick way how to renumber or batch rename all layers in a file so they would be named in consequent numbers? Doesn't have to start from exact number, I was wondering if maybe there is...
View ArticleSimple InDesign script -> Illustrator help
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...
View ArticleList missing fonts in Illustrator
Hi all, I've been working on a script to try and build a list of font's that not loaded in Illustrator. I know that Illustrator will alert missing fonts when a document is opened but this routine will...
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...
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CAN AN EXCEL XLSM FILE READ FROM A CSV AND WRITE BACK TO THE SAME XLSM -VBA
Hey Carlos- Here's the repost. Could an XLSM file read a line from a CSV file in "A1" and depending on what was in the first column in the XLSM, search the CSV file and find the indexed item in the...
View Articlechoose folder default location
Hi, I've been searching the forum to try and a way to allow a user to choose a folder from a default location. I thought I had found the solution but it's not quite working as I wanted: #target...
View ArticleA Script to Find and Replace Layer Names
Are there any scripts to find and replace layer names? There is an excellent script available for Photoshop which allows you to not only replace words in layer names, but also insert words as Prefixes,...
View ArticleOpen Save File Dialog with Default Path
Hi All, I want to open a "Save File Dialog " with some default path. Like when user run that script I want to open a "Save As" dialog box with default path "/Volumes/<shared name>/<folder...
View ArticleSaving documents via Scripts: Get current file name and set save path/file type
I am writing a script that will: -Make all layers invisible-Make a layer named "background" visible-Delete all the invisible layers-Save the docment as an EPS file (leaving the original document...
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[TUTORIAL] ADD YOUR OWN KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS TO YOUR JSX SCRIPTS
This is for Windows only; it uses a feature to launch your favorite software via a keyboard shortcut. It’s been here for a while but it just never occurred to me to use it for this purpose. 1....
View Articleembed all fonts in eps
I have a lot of existing eps-files of which the option "embed all fonts" is unchecked.Know I have to check the "embed all fonts" in the existing eps-files.I tried to modify the script below, but it...
View ArticleBreak text area into text lines
I want to break text area with line breaks in it into seperate text lines using return as delineator. for example "Line 1Line 2Line 3" I would like as "Line 1""Line 2" "Line 3" I could probably write...
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