AppleScript moving certain colours to new layers
Hi all. This is my first question here. I'm attempting to use AppleScript to organize the layers of my art files. What I am looking to do is have all objects with a fill color that is a specific CMYK...
View ArticleGetting the "real" visibleBounds with javascript...
Hi All,I'm have a great deal of trouble with this.I can get the visible bounds of a simple item or group of items.the Script for this is: //Get Size for all selected items/groupsdoc =...
View Articlepackage through scripting
is there a way to access the 'package' function in illustrator CC through scripting?
View Articlekey object (e.g. to align to), how can i get it programmatically from within...
I am attempting to write a Javascript extension that makes all objects the same size as the key object. I could so far not find a way to uniquely identify the key object in the selection array. The...
View ArticleIllustrator VBA scripting 101 - via Excel
This post will attempt to introduce newcomers to Illustrator Visual Basic Scripting (well, not actually vbs, but rather tru VBA, Visual Basic for Applications). I personally prefer vba over bvs for a...
View ArticleSplit Text into Layers
I was wondering if anyone is aware of a script that is able to do the same as this photoshop one http://www.agasyanc.ru/text-splitter, I would use that one in photoshop but its not working in CS6. I...
View ArticleScript to Make all text Dynamic
Is there a way or a script that will make all the text on a page Dynamic? At the moment we have to select each text box and press 'make text dynamic', which can get tiresome with a lot of text boxes....
View ArticleScript for Selecting Open Paths in Illustrator CS6
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...
View ArticleIllustrator script to open file in Photoshop
The Bridge SDK has a script to open a selected file in Photoshop.Can this be done from Illustrator instead? It seems that the cross-dom function open() should work in either an illustrator or bridge...
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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 ArticleCreate a guideline
Is there a way to make a guideline with script that is the same as the ones you drag off the ruler? The ones you drag from the ruler are the width or height of the whole pasteboard and can never be...
View ArticleEdit Metadata inside Illustrator
Can anyone please tell me how to edit the XMP Packet, while inside of Illustrator, without using FileInfo? I am writing a Flex PatchPanel Extension, so need access to some DOM parameter like...
View ArticleProblem with IllustratorSaveOptions not saving on Mac but work perfectly on...
Hey everyone- I am currently running Illustrator CS5 on Windows 7 using extendscript. My issue is this: When testing this script on any Windows machine, my script runs as it should but when I try to...
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Script to work around Illustrator bugs
Newbee here, We are working in Illustrator CS5. I have put together some scripts & Actions to automate several parts of our work. I'll start with what we have now. Plus what we have now...
View ArticleError 1200: an illustrator error occured:
While running the javascript(.js file), only sometimes it throws the following error.Error 1200: an illustrator error occured:1346458189('PARM')Line: 17-> myPageItems[i].selected = true;Could you...
View ArticleHow to check if a path fits inside of another path?
I've just been told that I need a script that will check and see if a path fits entirely within another path? In my case, I need to see if a GroupItem fits within a circle of a specific size. I don't...
View ArticleTweaking the SaveDocsAsPDF script
Hello. Absolute scripting newbie here; will someone take pity...?I am looking at the SaveDocsAsPDF script. It works for our purposes except I would like it to save PDFs using a Preset we created called...
View ArticleAppleScript moving certain colours to new layers
Hi all. This is my first question here. I'm attempting to use AppleScript to organize the layers of my art files. What I am looking to do is have all objects with a fill color that is a specific CMYK...
View ArticleChanging decimal values to fractions
Does anyone know of a good way to convert decimal values to fractions for use in inch measurements? I have a script that works great but it returns values like 5.5638 and I'd rather it return the...
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...
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