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‎Aug 08, 2024
02:56 PM
And why is this still a problem. I'm old. I like my big UI. My eyes like my big UI so why can't Adobe get the window to fit properly? Geebus.
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‎Nov 28, 2022
05:43 PM
As a note all the objects are the same area. Thanks to another script. This makes their height/width vary from object to object.
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‎Nov 28, 2022
05:38 PM
2 screen shots here. One of the previous poster with objects tagged with a date then sorted alpha-numerically. That's the color one. Then where I am now. I'll happily drop everything into a single layer to get them sorted by the number of points for each object. This is an attempt to sort based on complexity. More points, shorter path length = more complex. The highest number of points I've found is about 22k. Lowest is 43.
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‎Nov 28, 2022
12:28 PM
Arranging the object front to back, least points to most points, and then moving them along the X axis would be great. Putting them in grid would be even better as with a thousand or so objects spacing them out goes quickly into the overflow areas. In previous incanations I would sort by name and then go through various gyrations to get everything in rows. Right now my objects & layers are sorted like this.
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‎Nov 27, 2022
08:09 PM
I am, unfortunately, not a scripter. IIRC Organize is a Java script which I know even less about.
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‎Nov 27, 2022
11:13 AM
Does anybody know of a script that will sort objects, compound and otherwise, by the number of points on the path? I know I can get the information from the Document Info>Objects, which I could then manually insert into the object name and sort the names, etc. I was hoping for something along the lines of the Organize script by John Wundes where it would arrange them high to low or some such.
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‎Jan 20, 2021
11:05 AM
I once again throw myself at teh feet fo teh scriptors and beg for one more script. I am hoping to be able to select objects by partial name, like "Votoms" or "Expanse" so that I can apply a style to them. The object names tend to be more complicated than just the one word, with a 8 digit number and more refrence text. Is this possible? I've dug through and tried everything list here and elsewhere and cannot find a script that works. Help me oh-be script-kenonbi, you are my last hope.
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‎Jan 14, 2021
10:39 AM
Is necro posting ok here? Ran the script with nothing selected and got a "Select the data Source dirst!!" so I selected everything on a layer and got Error 21: undefined is not an object. Line: 21 -> var names = str.split(/\,|\r\n|\r|\n/g); // split the string Is there an updated version? Am I doing something wrong?
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‎Jan 09, 2021
09:24 PM
Only error I can get it to make is when you have two or more seperated object joined as a compound path. Not that that's a common situation. Other than that seems to be flawless. And thanks for the note on how to alter it if need be.
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‎Jan 09, 2021
07:52 PM
gah-roovy I'll let you know
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‎Jan 09, 2021
01:38 PM
Or so I thought. It works on non-compound path objects perfectly. An object with a compound path to using the objects width & heighth.
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‎Jan 08, 2021
01:54 PM
Hey that seemed to have fixed it.
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‎Jan 06, 2021
08:59 AM
I'm getting a error with this: Error 1242: Illegal argument - argument 1 - Numeric value expected Line: 9 -> item.resize(scaleFactor, scaleFactor); I have a script for getting the area if that helps" var decimalPlaces = 3;
function calculateArea (obj) {
if (obj.typename == "PathItem") {
return obj.area; // could be negative
} else if (obj.typename == "CompoundPathItem") {
var totalArea = 0;
for (var i=0; i<obj.pathItems.length; i++) {
totalArea += calculateArea(obj.pathItems[i]); // could be negative
}
return Math.abs(totalArea); // make sure positive
} else if (obj.typename == "GroupItem") {
var totalArea = 0;
for (var i=0; i<obj.pathItems.length; i++) {
totalArea += Math.abs(calculateArea(obj.pathItems[i])); // make sure positive
}
for (var i=0; i<obj.compoundPathItems.length; i++) {
totalArea += calculateArea(obj.compoundPathItems[i]); // already positive
}
for (var i=0; i<obj.groupItems.length; i++) {
totalArea += calculateArea(obj.groupItems[i]); // already positive
}
return totalArea; // already positive
} else { // not path, compound path or group
return 0;
}
}
function convertArea (area) {
var ppi = 72;
var result = {};
result.inch = area/ppi/ppi;
result.cm = result.inch * 6.4516;
return result;
}
if (app.documents.length > 0) {
var objects = app.activeDocument.selection;
var display = ["Shape Area"];
// Collect info
var totalArea = 0;
for (var i=0; i<objects.length; i++) {
var area = Math.abs(calculateArea(objects[i])); // need absolute in case of PathItems
totalArea += area;
var conv = convertArea(area);
display.push(conv.inch.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + " in² / " + conv.cm.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + "cm²");
}
var conv = convertArea(totalArea);
display.push("Total Area: " + conv.inch.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + " in² / " + conv.cm.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + " cm²");
// Display
alert(display.join("\n"));
}
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‎Jan 05, 2021
02:14 PM
I need a script to scale objects to the same area, in this case 4 sqaure inches. Find the area, reduce to square root, dicive 2 by that number and use that number to scale the object up or down. I've done a hundred or so and have soemthing 1700 left to go. Automating would be a big help.
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‎Jan 04, 2021
09:14 AM
Is that what causes the multiples of commas? You're right, this runs much faster. Just did a test with 167 objects and it was done in a blink.
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‎Jan 03, 2021
09:11 PM
Let me give that a try. I'd tried it with 40 some odd objects and after 20 minutes I shut it down. And belatedly, thanks! I was not looking forward to copy & pasting.
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‎Jan 03, 2021
03:37 PM
Well that kind of works. Anything more than a dozen objects and it gets very, very.... very slow. I'll have to see if I can do batches.
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‎Jan 02, 2021
04:48 PM
I've got a few thousand object names I need added to a text block. Copy & pasting will take forever. Even exporting them to a text document would work. Is there anything out there to heklp with this?
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‎Jul 22, 2020
12:46 PM
2 Upvotes
I am needing to make a map legend using some 180 colors. What I want is to be able to arrange the objects filled with the various colors by color value. Light to dark, Cool to Warm, etc. The other thing I'd likek to do is be able to grab all the objects and add their various colors to the swatches panel. Help? Or am I doing this totally bassackwards? I did, as a notr, figure out a way to do this manually but it's painstaking. Dup the objects, convert to grayscale then group gray version with color version and use the gray to refrence light to dark.
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‎Feb 22, 2017
08:56 AM
I actually studied mime @ one time... hold on, I'll need to find a leotard... Typically in my experience Illustrator's standard stroke profiles create far more points when converted to an outline than a art brush.Hold on let me see if I can get an example.... and of course the tests I just did say default profiles produce less points than and art brush of a similar shaping. Ok, by the numbers - 1,944 open paths comprised of 8,856 points. If I assign a stroke profile then expand I get 101,412 points. If I assign an Art Brush of similar shape and expand I get 74,991 points. My reasons for expanding the stroke are rooted in 15 years of pre-press when too many points would crash the RIP. It's the reason I learned to hate Freehand. Now I can, of course, use the Simplify menu item to reduce point numbers but that can also go way wonkers @ times. Yes, technically I had less points before I outlined but the RIP does that same task so I'd typically expand and cut instead of relying on Clipping Masks to coverup the excess. I know, I'm weird and bassakwards but there you go. Hell the first RIP I worked with would puke on anything that had more than 50,000 points. Gads I hated that beast.
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‎Feb 21, 2017
07:09 PM
Simple Art Brush applied to a grouped or ungrouped bunch or paths. "New Art Has Basic Appearance" makes no difference. The reason for this is I was using a stroke profile that when converted to outline has a billion points. Quick fix is to build an Art Brush, apply it, convert to outlines, viola less points. Trying to figure out how to explain this in pictures... maybe an interpretative dance number...
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‎Feb 21, 2017
03:22 PM
Say I have a slew of paths of an assortment of weights. I select them all and from the Brush pallet apply a brush to them all by clicking on the Brush I want to use. The stroke weight changes on all of them to 1pt. Is there ANY way to apply a brush to a stroke and not have it default to 1?
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‎Aug 27, 2016
04:36 PM
1 Upvote
That was the issue. Once I unlocked and viewed all layers it worked fine. Thanks.
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‎Aug 27, 2016
03:20 PM
Why the heck it didn't take it the first 3 times... Ok, it's working and working pretty spiffy. For some odd reason I cannot figure out I have one document that throws up a; Error 8705: Target layer cannot be modified Line: 69 -> pthDupl = doc.pathltems.add O; When I try to run it on a path. I can copy & paste the path to another document and it works. Haven't been able to reproduce in on another file but in the meantime, yes it works awesomely. The ONLY improvements I could see would be being able to perform it on multiple paths @ once, and the ability to designate min/max angles. Thanks, this'll save me some seriously tedious work.
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‎Aug 27, 2016
02:30 PM
I am a complete novice with this, cut & pasted in toa plain text doc, saved as a .jsx and Illustrator refuses to load it. What am I doing wrong?
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‎Aug 25, 2016
09:14 AM
The only problem with that is I would be redrawing some 100+ paths. The stuff I create can get... complex. While I've done it before I was hoping somebody knew of a script that could help speed the process up. That and it gets really annoying to cut everything and then realize it doesn't work and I need to adjust my offsets.
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‎Aug 24, 2016
10:24 AM
Odd question but one I've had for a while. In my work there have been times when I needed to convert a shape to a series of lines, keeping the curved parts but breaking the line where it angles. Anybody know of a trick to this other than manually selecting them?
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‎Aug 23, 2016
08:33 PM
Awesome! Just wanted to say thanks!
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‎Jul 16, 2016
04:24 PM
I need to rename layers based on another file. Both have the same # of layers in the same order and a sequential number won't help. Does anybody know of a script that can do this? My last bit of programming was recorded on a magnetic cassette tape and I have no idea of where to start with scripting so I'm throwing myself on the mercy of the forums.
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