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Exporting Layers in Illustrator to individual SVG files

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December 10, 2021
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Hi, I have thousands of garment illustraions to export to SVG files and there are multiple illustrations on one artboard. I have a script to seporate them onto individual layers. However I can't seem to find an extension for Illustrator 2021 to export layers to individual SVG files.

Also if the files could be named the same as the layer name that would be a life saver!

I know there was something for Illustrator 2019 however I no longer have access to that version.

Any help would be appreciated.

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Correct answer Monika Gause

That something in Illustrator CC2019 probably was the Export Layer script: https://gist.github.com/TomByrne/7816376

Hema27516361x22u

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Does not work in 2023 version, any help is apprecaited.

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Exactly what does not work?

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That something in Illustrator CC2019 probably was the Export Layer script: https://gist.github.com/TomByrne/7816376

sarahk14564620Author

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Hi Yes I just need to be able to use this in CC21 if you know how?

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In exactly the same way as earlier versions. It works in Illustrator v26, but requires you to name layers something other than the defaults first.

Download the .jsx, add it to Presets\Scripts in the Program Files folder if you want to run it from Illustrator's menu.

Or go to File > Scripts > Other Script... to run it from anywhere.