hmm. When i run it i get a jpeg. if you change the extension in line 2 to .png then you certainly get a png. However I just tryed to open the jpg i made in photoshop and got an error that " an unknown or invalid jpeg marker was found". Does anybody know what could be causing this? ... View more

Hi Magesh with exportOption.verticalScaling and horizontalScaling it is somehow possible to get a 300ppi jpeg I think? However i use app.imageCapture rather than app.exportFile. In this command you can give .resolution = 300. The captureClip Variable below exports then only then active artboard. var aiApp = app.activeDocument; var dest = path + ".jpeg"; var fileSpec = new File(dest); var captureOptions = new ImageCaptureOptions(); captureOptions.resolution = 300; captureOptions.antiAliasing = true; var curBoard = aiApp.artboards[aiApp.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex()] var captureClip = this.curBoard.artboardRect aiApp.imageCapture(fileSpec, captureClip,captureOptions) Maybe this would be a solution for you. ... View more

Excellent. Get stuff. I'd sure like to be spending more time writing scripts and less time using them. Far more interesting. ... View more

mornin' Kas I just went through this application. Very interesting. I think I learned a dozen new things. I did actually manage to pound out a refined search using parts of the old path name. One of the main goals of the script though, was to have no dialogs. The script would just figure out where to go(with in a defined area) Below is the code I ended up with. Thanks a lot for your input and share this great bit of scripting. var idDoc = app.activeDocument  var broke = []  var foundFiles = []  var folds = []  var started = false  for (var i=0; i < idDoc.links.length; i++){      var a = idDoc.links      if (a.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING ){                    //here i parsed the broken path and used parts of it im my searchFolder path.          //this made my directory was much smaller and more targeted and therefore does not have a stack overflow          var parse = a.filePath.split("\\")          var gender = parse[2]+ "\\"          var prodGroup = parse[3]          broke.push(a.name)      }  }  if (broke.length >= 0){      var searchFolder =Folder("Q:\Kollektion_Files\\" + gender + prodGroup)      getFilesFromFolder(searchFolder)      fix(broke, foundFiles)      }      function getFilesFromFolder(curfolder){            if (started == true){          folds.splice(0,1)          }      var files = curfolder.getFiles();       for (l = 0; l < files.length; l++){          if (files instanceof Folder){              var entry = files               folds.push(entry)              }          }      var curFile;        for(var x=0; x<files.length; x++){            curFile = files ;            if(curFile instanceof File && validFile(curFile)){              foundFiles.push(curFile);                         }      }      started = true      var len = folds.length      if (folds.length >> 0){      getFilesFromFolder(folds[0])      }  }       function fix(linkList, fileList){  for (var t = 0; t < linkList.length; t++){      var fixLink = linkList .substring( 0, 9)      for(var x=0;x<fileList.length; x++)   {            if(fileList .displayName.search(fixLink) >= 0){              var theLink = idDoc.links.itemByName(linkList )              theLink.relink(fileList )              break;              }        }      }    }        function validFile(file){    return (/TF.*\.ai/i.test(file.name));    }   var idDoc = app.activeDocument  var broke = []  var foundFiles = []  var folds = []  var started = false  for (var i=0; i < idDoc.links.length; i++){      var a = idDoc.links      if (a.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING ){                    //here i parsed the broken path and used parts of it im my searchFolder path.          //my directory was much smaller and more targeted and therefore does not have a stack overflow          var parse = a.filePath.split("\\")          var gender = parse[2]+ "\\"          var prodGroup = parse[3]          broke.push(a.name)      }  }  if (broke.length >= 0){      var searchFolder =Folder("Q:\Kollektion_Files\\" + gender + prodGroup)      getFilesFromFolder(searchFolder)      fix(broke, foundFiles)      }      function getFilesFromFolder(curfolder){            if (started == true){          folds.splice(0,1)          }      var files = curfolder.getFiles();       for (l = 0; l < files.length; l++){          if (files instanceof Folder){              var entry = files               folds.push(entry)              }          }      var curFile;        for(var x=0; x<files.length; x++){            curFile = files ;            if(curFile instanceof File && validFile(curFile)){              foundFiles.push(curFile);                         }      }      started = true      var len = folds.length      if (folds.length >> 0){      getFilesFromFolder(folds[0])      }  }       function fix(linkList, fileList){  for (var t = 0; t < linkList.length; t++){      var fixLink = linkList .substring( 0, 9)      for(var x=0;x<fileList.length; x++)   {            if(fileList .displayName.search(fixLink) >= 0){              var theLink = idDoc.links.itemByName(linkList )              theLink.relink(fileList )              break;              }        }      }    }        function validFile(file){    return (/TF.*\.ai/i.test(file.name));    }   ... View more

Yes It think it must have been the scope. I got the script to work. I narrowed the search down to much smaller field by peicing together bits of the broken links. I have pasted the script below. near the top are comments where I narrowed the search. Thanks for all your input and to pixxxel schubser​. var idDoc = app.activeDocument var broke = [] var foundFiles = [] var folds = [] var started = false for (var i=0; i < idDoc.links.length; i++){     var a = idDoc.links     if (a.status == LinkStatus.LINK_MISSING ){                 //here i parsed the broken path and used parts of it im my searchFolder path.         //my directory was much smaller and more targeted and therefore does not have a stack overflow         var parse = a.filePath.split("\\")         var gender = parse[2]+ "\\"         var prodGroup = parse[3]         broke.push(a.name)     } } if (broke.length >= 0){     var searchFolder =Folder("Q:\Kollektion_Files\\" + gender + prodGroup)     getFilesFromFolder(searchFolder)     fix(broke, foundFiles)     } function getFilesFromFolder(curfolder){         if (started == true){         folds.splice(0,1)         }     var files = curfolder.getFiles();     for (l = 0; l < files.length; l++){         if (files instanceof Folder){             var entry = files             folds.push(entry)             }         }     var curFile;      for(var x=0; x<files.length; x++){          curFile = files ;          if(curFile instanceof File && validFile(curFile)){             foundFiles.push(curFile);                     }     }     started = true     var len = folds.length     if (folds.length >> 0){     getFilesFromFolder(folds[0])     } } function fix(linkList, fileList){ for (var t = 0; t < linkList.length; t++){     var fixLink = linkList .substring(0, 9)     for(var x=0;x<fileList.length; x++)   {          if(fileList .displayName.search(fixLink) >= 0){             var theLink = idDoc.links.itemByName(linkList )             theLink.relink(fileList )             break;             }       }     }  }  function validFile(file){  return (/TF.*\.ai/i.test(file.name));  } ... View more

Hello Silly-V That is what i was trying to do with:     var files = curfolder.getFiles();     for (l = 0; l < files.length; l++){         if (files instanceof Folder){             var entry = files             folds.push(entry)             }         } Am i wrong in thinking this makes an array of all possible folders? I dont have a zillion files of folders but there is over a thousand folders and 5000 files. This may be the main problem. ... View more

Thanks for the help but they all rely on dialogs, user imput. I want a to say go and watch as broken links are magically repaired. I think i might be on to something. I am parsing the broken links to help direct the populating of directory array. ... View more

Hello again. I did post this quiry in the indesign forum however actually the indesign coding of the script is very basic stuff. I am not having problems with it. It is using javascript to locate files in directories on my hard drive that is problematic. I adapted a recursive script to try to build and object with all relevent file paths to be checked through but obvously it does not take long to reach stack overflow. Since the question is "übergreifend" so to speak, I posted it here too. Thanks for the link. perhaps it is only asthetic but my copy paste scripts bothered me. ... View more

Danke schonmal für deine Mühe Es bewundert mich immer wieder wie hilfsbereit  Leute in diesem Forum sind. Ja, vielleicht am Zeilensetzer liegt das. Ich hab ein bißchen rum gegraben ob ich ein Variable dafür finden könnte. Kein Erfolg. Also wie am Anfang erwahnt ist das ärgerlich aber nur eine Kleinigkeit. Ich kann aber vorstellen dass in einem anderen Project, sowas kritisch werden könnte. Mal schauen. Vielen Dank. Ich habe nicht eine deutschsprachige Benutzeroberfläche weil ich mich gern herausfördern möchte, das kann ich schonmal sagen. Bei einer deutschen Firme im schönen Rurhgebeit arbeite ich. Einsteigen auf eine deutsche Illustrator Version war eine Qual aber mitteleweile bin ich ahnungslos auf einer englischen Version geworden. ... View more

In my illustrator there is no Gotham Bold, though there may be in your, however what i notice is that the name does not seem to follow the normal naming structure. I believe names are normally capitalized without spaces followed by a dash and the style, also capitalized with out spaces. For example: "ACaslonPro-BoldItalic" So I would guess that if your font is avaiable on your version of illustrator then it would be "Gotham-Bold". Correction: I just remembered this_text.characterAttributes.textFont must be equal to an textFont object. It is possible however to get a textFont Object by name. example: afont = textFonts["ACaslonPro-BoldItalic"] this_text.characterAttributes.textFont = afont ... View more

Here is a loop that runs through all textFrames and gets the font used. #target "illustrator"    var active_doc = app.activeDocument; var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames; var usedFonts = [] for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)  {       var this_text_frame = text_frames;       usedFonts.push(this_text_frame.textRange.textFont.name)       } However this is only good if all text in a single textFrame has the same Font. If you have multiple fonts in the same text frame then you would have to make a loop to look through every character in the document seperately. Below is a quick example. #target "illustrator" var active_doc = app.activeDocument; var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames; var usedFonts = [] var listed = false for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)  {       var this_text_frame = text_frames;           for (var t =0 ; t < this_text_frame.characters.length; t++){                var aFont = this_text_frame.characters .textFont.name                InArray(aFont)               if(listed  == false){                     usedFonts.push(aFont )                }            listed = false            }        } function InArray(quiry){ for (var n =0 ; n < usedFonts.length; n++){     var curFont = usedFonts         if(curFont  == quiry){             listed = true         }     } return listed } ... View more

Meine Muttersprache ist Englisch aber ich kann deutsch und wenn das angenehmer ist dann gerne. Ich arbeite mit der Aktuellen Illustrator CC 2018. Unten ist ein Link mit meiner Testdatei. WeTransfer Vorgestern hatte ich auch so einen Fall. Dafür fand ich eine Work Around die aber nicht hier helfen kann. Ich hatte ein TextFrame in dem ich mit .Replace Daten ersetz habe und danach akiRight bei einem character geändert. Später in dem Code war noch was in dem selben Frame geändert und dadürch war meine akiRight Anweisung zurückgesetzt. Macht kein Sinn. Spielst du den Code von Extend-Script aus? ... View more

Hi again, here are the screenshots. 1. BEFORE. 2. AFTER ... View more

Hi Pixxxel schubser Thanks for the response. I tryed this out exactly as you wrote it and it worked. However if your textFrame already has a spaceBefore/After value higher than 0 and you would like to return both values to 0, this is where the problem arises.  spaceBefore = 0; spaceAfter = 0. the first line is carried out but the second line is ignored. ... View more

So does this code make a costomize popup window populated with all availabe fonts and all fonts in use so you can change all instances of a font in a document??? Thats crazy. I didnt know one could make windows and that sort of thing. ... View more

So I am not really sure what the purpose of your script is mostly because i dont understand parts of it, nor clear what what problems you are having. However judging from the title of this thread you want to change the font of text at some point in your script? Like this? var active_doc = app.activeDocument; var text_frames = active_doc.textFrames;  var afont =  textFonts[0] for (var i = 0 ; i < text_frames.length; i++)  {       var this_text = text_frames.textRange;       this_text.characterAttributes.textFont = afont      } And you want all the avaiable fonts? the textFont Object has all the fonts available in Illustrator. I suppose you could loop through or what ever it is you need. For fonts used in the document I suppose you could loop through all the textRanges and check the characterAttributes to get the font names. I really dont know if any of this is what you are looking for. ... View more

here is the location of a site which offers a free plugin which can handle mouse events. I am not familiar with it but i bookmarked it for myself for future use. Perhaps this would work for you. https://scriptographer.org/tutorials/interaction/creating-mouse-tools/ ... View more

Thanks for your reply Williamadowling. My code is definitely on the messy confusing side. I usually hack a way at a code till it does what i want. In response to your first reply, according to what i have read a const can be declared and at some other point it can be initialized. I needed a global const but i need the value for it out of a function. Consts declared in a function disappear when the function is finished. Perhaps making a function specifically for that purpose would have been the right approach. aFolder does not get defined more than once because it is protected by the "descended" boolean which can not be reversed once it has been made true. It never changes. It does in fact dig into all the folders open and pdf all required files. does everything i want. Unfortunately it does it again and again. I am just trying to explain the thinking behind what i did, however misguided it may have been. So your script: It works perfectly. Really great. I like that it doesn’t jumping back and for between finding and saving. Saving the paths in an array is also excellent. Well maybe that would be obvious to people that know how to code properly? Another thing is the recursing through the tree structure. I spent days writing a script to looked through tree structures. I have no idea why yours is 9 lines long. Ill have to spend more time looking at that bit of the code. Thank you very much for taking the time to look through my code and writing this new one. It is immensly helpful. ... View more

Hello again an update on my above problem. Yesterday this code keep throwing an error at the saveAs pdf, saying Illegel argument. Today the code worked ok for the morning. Then it started running off into an endless loop. Now the same code is calling up a Save As window in the Illlustrator window. There must be something unstable about this code but have know idea what that could be. If anyone has any Ideas it would be much appreciated. Thanks, Dane ... View more

Hi Phil Making PDFs seams like shooting in the dark. my codes work today or in this minute and then dont tomorrow or in the next minute. anyway I use: saveName = workingDoc.path.fsName rather than: .fullName. This works for me. Also I am not so fancy with the .replace() so I just write saveName =  saveName + "something". I am not saying this is elegent but maybe it is safer? Best, Dane ... View more

I don’t know how familiar you are with coding so the below assumes you are not. Sorry about that. The following script exports a PNG8. PNG24 is more difficult for some reason. I took the script from the JavaScripting Reference for Illustrator and tweeked it a bit so it saves to the original location. The exportOptions control the settings. The below example exports the active artboard(exportOptions.artBoardClipping), saves 300ppi(exportOptions.horizontalScale& exportOptions.verticalScale) with no transparency(exportOptions.transparency). You can toggle settings using true and false. Changing exportOptions.horizontalScale& exportOptions.verticalScale to 100 will give you 72 ppi. To use the script, download Adobe’s extendscript toolkit, copy the below into a new document and modify as you like. it must then be save in: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Presets\de_DE\Skripten My location address is written in German but it gives the general idea of the location. After restarting illustrator the script will be available under file>scripts. More PNG exportOptions can be found at https://www.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/devnet/illustrator/pdf/Illustrator-Scripting-Reference-JavaScript-cs6.pdf Some notes: this code will save over a png of the same name that is already in the original folder if there is one. It will not ask before hand. Also codes from other people are not always safe. It is a good idea to check with the Illustrator Scripting forum here in adobe forum site. #target "illustrator" var aiApp = app.activeDocument; dest = aiApp.fullName if (app.documents.length > 0) {     var exportOptions = new ExportOptionsPNG8();     var type = ExportType.PNG8;     var fileSpec = new File(dest);     exportOptions.transparency = false; exportOptions.horizontalScale = 416.67 exportOptions.verticalScale = 416.67 exportOptions.artBoardClipping = true;     aiApp.exportFile(fileSpec, type, exportOptions)     } Hope that was helpful. Dane ... View more

Hi Laurie when i "Save AS" it works fine, tring to save in the original location. But when i "Save As Copy" it opens where ever i last saved which is the same as your problem. But this only happens when i "save as copy" manually. I dont know if you are familiar with writing scripts. I usually just run a script to save copies because it is faster and the copiees always have the same settings and the name changes in the same way. It is preprogrammed in my code to save to its original folder. If the PNGs you save always have the same settings you might consider something similar. ... View more

I have this too, for everything i save in illustrator. I have the latest 2018 update including the export fix. Version 22.0.1. 64 bit windows 7 pro is my OS. Any Ideas? I feel like I have looked through every setting. ... View more

Thanks. ya i have been looking at that for a bit, but it does not work for me. using: #target "illustrator" var aiApp = app.activeDocument; var artItem = aiApp.placedItems[0] var location = File(artItem.file.fsName); var asset = app.openCloudLibraryAssetForEditing (location,location); I get the error that the third argument is illigal. however the third argument is optional,  and it is not given in my code. also i have no idea what to put in there. in any event i'd like to be able to iterate through the elements and change their names, I dont think this method will help with that. I was thinking about digging in the xml(assuming that is xml behing it) to try to and directly make a name change there but i couldnt understand a lot of it. Still, it would be interesting to understand how "openCloudLibraryAssetForEditing " works. ... View more

Too bad. I'd sure like some methods to work with and modify the cloud libraries. When you have thousands of Library elements and much of your work involves these libraries, some scripting could really make a difference. Maybe CC 2019. ... View more