Re: Group Items in Illustrator
Re: Group Items in Illustrator
- Subject: Re: Group Items in Illustrator
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 22:16:06 +1000
On 22/6/01 8:46 PM +1000, Pier Kuipers, email@hidden, wrote:
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Anybody any ideas on how to ungroup items in Illustrator? I seem to
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have terrible problems dealing with groups:
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set selected of (every page item of current document whose class is
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group item) to true
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--> Selects only groups, as expected.
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set selected of (every page item of current document whose class is
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not group item) to true
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--> Selects everything, including items that *are* group items
I'm not sure what you're trying to do. To ungroup items, you move them from
a group to somewhere else.
Your second line is selecting every thing because it's selecting the page
items that make up the groups.
In Illustrator, if you ask for, say, every group item of a document, you
will get a list of every group item, including those that are part of other
groups. But if you ask for every group item of every layer of a document,
you will only get the groups on the layers, not those that are members of
them.
Whether you refer via document or layer depends on whether you want to
flatten the hierarchy or not.
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden