Re: Illustrator Text Extraction
Re: Illustrator Text Extraction
- Subject: Re: Illustrator Text Extraction
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:28:44 +1100
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 way
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to extract text placed or written into an Illustrator document and have it
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saved into a separate text file such as BBEdit for example. The 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.
Sure. If there is only one bit of text, you could do something like this:
on open fileList
repeat with aFile in fileList
tell application "Adobe Illustrator 10"
open aFile forcing CMYK
tell document 1
set theText to contents of text art item 1
end tell
close document 1 saving no
end tell
set fileRef to (open for access file ((aFile as text) & "*") with write
permission)
write theText to fileRef
close access fileRef
end repeat
end open
This would give you a droplet that would open each file in turn, get the
text, and then save it in a text file with the same name plus an asterisk.
It would get a bit more complicated if there were more text art items -- how
you handle that would depend on the specifics of the files.
And Illustrator 10 is much better behaved under OS X when you're scripting
it.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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