Adobe Illustrator Scripting
Adobe Illustrator Scripting
- Subject: Adobe Illustrator Scripting
- From: "Simon P. Grasser" <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 15:30:01 +0200
Hi
I am new to AppleScript and wanted to write a Folder Action script that
would let me convert all text items in an Illustrator document to outlines.
The Idea was that I could drop a document either .ai or .eps into a
Finder folder named "In". Illustrator would then automatically open the
dropped document, change all text to outlines, save the document in the
same format as the original and append "_text-ol" to its name. the new
document and the original would then be moved to a Finder folder named
"Processed"
dropping a hello.ai into "In" would result in two documents - hello.ai
and hello_text-ol.ai respectively - in the folder "Processed". However I
am already stuck with selecting all items in an Illustrator document. I
found no hints in the Illu Dictionary on how to do this.
This is what I have so far:
tell application "Illustrator CS"
--something like this
--set currentSelection to every item
-- Make sure the selection is a page item,and not text in a text art item.
-- If the selection is text, the class of the selection will be text,
rather than list.
if class of currentSelection is list then
-- Process each item in the selection, looking for text art items.
repeat with targetItem in currentSelection
if class of targetItem is text frame then
convert to paths targetItem
end if
end repeat
end if
--save document in processed folder appending "text-ol" to its name
--close document
end tell
-- move original doc to processed
Any help is greatly appreciated
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