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April 29, 2024
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Creating an Action to set up file layout

  • April 29, 2024
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Hello,

 

I wish to create a very specific Action for Design to Artwork setups. I had a similar action created a few years ago in this forum that did the exact same thing but there have been some changes since then. Adobe Illustrator has had changes from AICC2020 which mess up the action a little. I am also supplied the Dielines used for this action as different colours. I don't know how to create detailed actions or edit them: there is no documentation about advanced actions, only actions that can be 'recorded.'

 

I'm supplied a Dieline by an outside Designer and then I have to set up artwork based on our printers capabilities and standards. I have tried to seperate different colours into different layers by creating an action but it hasn't worked and I'm still doing this manually. I can describe the process below.

 

Select Same Stroke Colour (Red) > Put in new Layer 2

Select Same Stroke Colour (Green) > Move in Layer 2

Select Same Stroke Colour (Black) > Put in new Layer 3

Select Same Fill Colour (Black) > Move in Layer 3

Select Same Stroke Colour (Blue) > Put in new Layer 4

Change Stroke Colour of Sheet (Pink) to no stroke

Resize Artboard to fit Selected Art (Sheet) (the actual stroke not the visual art)

 

This is really the whole process - it's simple but would be a lot quicker with actions. I would then rename the layers - Layer 2 Dieline, Layer 3 Dimensions, Layer 4 Artwork, Layer 1 would become Bounding.

 

The attached dieline are the colours of each thing we'd use. Is this possible these days? Is it also possible to make the colours a selected colour (technical ink) from an ase file or is this not in the capabilities of actions?

 

DOWNLOAD LINK: https://file.io/zMCxAj7KW6GH (if attachment doesn't work)

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