RE: Illustrator Text Extraction
RE: Illustrator Text Extraction
- Subject: RE: Illustrator Text Extraction
- From: Hellum Timothy <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 18:05:15 -0500
Many thanks Shane. We are suing Illustrator 9 here, and I will look into
adapting the script as need be to meet its dictionary. This is a great
start for me. Thanks again.
Timothy
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From: Shane Stanley
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 5:28 PM
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To: AS lists
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Subject: Re: Illustrator Text Extraction
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On 1/3/02 2:32 AM +1000, Hellum Timothy, email@hidden, wrote:
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> I know only a little about AppleScript, but have wondered if there's a
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way
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> to extract text placed or written into an Illustrator document and have
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it
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> saved into a separate text file such as BBEdit for example. The
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Illustrator
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> files I am potentially dealing with will have graphics placed on them as
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> well, if that makes a difference.
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Sure. If there is only one bit of text, you could do something like this:
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on open fileList
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repeat with aFile in fileList
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tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
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open aFile forcing CMYK
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tell document 1
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set theText to contents of text art item 1
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end tell
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close document 1 saving no
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end tell
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set fileRef to (open for access file ((aFile as text) & "*") with write
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permission)
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write theText to fileRef
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close access fileRef
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end repeat
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end open
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This would give you a droplet that would open each file in turn, get the
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text, and then save it in a text file with the same name plus an asterisk.
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It would get a bit more complicated if there were more text art items --
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how
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you handle that would depend on the specifics of the files.
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And Illustrator 10 is much better behaved under OS X when you're scripting
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it.
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--
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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