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December 24, 2021
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Save copy incrementally with javascript

  • December 24, 2021
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The free Javascript "Save-Incrementally.jsx" for Adobe Illustrator 2022, Adobe Photoshop 2022 and Adobe InDesign 2022 or older versions saves the current saved document in the file format .ai, .psd or .indd and automatically adds a consecutive number to the file name. Thus, the file "Example.ai" becomes the file "Example-0001.ai", "Example-0002.ai" and so on; this works analogously for Photoshop and InDesign. This is also called "incremented" (continuous) saving. In this way, you can save individual steps in between and go back to an older version if necessary. The Javascript also works with older versions of Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign.  

See my Behance profile or on my german website.

 

Have fun with it and merry christmas to all.

– jens

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Parts4Arts
Inspiring
December 30, 2021

Update Version 1.7: Saves the sequentially numbered copy in the same file format as the working file like ai, eps, svg or svgz in Illustrator.

 

See my Behance profile or on my german website.

 

 

Parts4Arts
Inspiring
January 7, 2022

Update to version 2.0 with more features and user interface. Here the example from in Photoshop.

See my Behance profile or on my german website.

 

 

CarlosCanto
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Community Expert
January 7, 2022

thanks for sharing Jens!

Parts4Arts
Inspiring
December 29, 2021

The new version 1.5 saves the original document in Illustrator and InDesign. The copy with the sequential number is created faster by the operating system.

– jens.