Re: Illustrator
Re: Illustrator
- Subject: Re: Illustrator
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 21:27:08 +1100
On 18/12/00 7:08 PM +1000, Peter Mathiessen, email@hidden,
wrote:
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Does anyone know how to remove swatches in Illustrator that is unused?
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I know how to remove them if I know the name of the swatch, but in most
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cases I don4t know that.
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I want to make a script that opens a lot of Illustrator files and remove all
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unused swatch colors.
You will probably have to loop through the swatches, seeing if a path item
exists with a fill color or stroke color of each, as well as checking the
color of the contents of text art items. There's no single command to do it
for you.
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Also, I having some trouble to acces the "do script" in Illustrator, the
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script is working fine in Photshop but in Illustrator nothing happens.
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I have recorded a script in Illustrator but can4t reach it by my script.
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The script:
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator. 9.0" to activate
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set searchFolder to "Macintosh HD:files_in:"
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set myList to list folder alias searchFolder without invisibles
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repeat with myFilename in every item in myList
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set myFile to alias (searchFolder & myFilename)
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator. 9.0"
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try
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open myFile
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do script "Save01"
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end try
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end tell
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end repeat
If you look in the dictionary, you will see that the do script command has a
"from" parameter that is required; it won't work without it.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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