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Script to copy variables into metadata

Forum|Forum|10 years ago
May 10, 2016
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I have various text anchors with given as variables. I am able to alert the object information of variables in an illustrator document using the script below. Is there a way of copying the contents of those into the metadata? I don't mind which field of metadata. Thanks.

	var idoc = app.activeDocument;
	var vars = idoc.variables;


	for (j=0; j<vars.length; j++)
	alert(vars.name + ' : ' + vars.pageItems[0].contents);

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You can reference below:

Extend_Script_experimentals/XMPtool.jsx at master · ten-A/Extend_Script_experimentals · GitHub

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To clarify, I would like to write to the metadata form the variable object data in the file, not write the metadata to an exported file.

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You can use it to write opened document metadata.

To set custom metadata and get opened document path(ex: XMPtool.f = app.activeDocument.fullName).

Call the write function with previouse path.