Script to delete text and path items present outside the Artboard

Question

Hello All,

I just want ask, whethere any possibilites are there in scripting to delete the text and path items present outside the artboard.

For Example:

I want to delete the rectangles and text present outside artboard for 100's of files. As of now, I am doing manually.

Please let me know any possible and quick way using scripting.

CarlosCanto · Accepted Answer

here's a very crude alternative for educational purposes app.executeMenuCommand ("selectallinartboard");app.executeMenuCommand ("Inverse menu item");app.executeMenuCommand ("clear");

femkeblanco · Answer

This should delete anything partly or completely outside the one artboard:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var items = doc.pageItems;
for (var i = items.length - 1; i > -1; i--) {
    var b1 = items[i].geometricBounds;
    var b2 = doc.artboards[0].artboardRect;
    if ((b1[0] < b2[0] || b1[2] > b2[2]) || 
        (b1[1] > b2[1] || b1[3] < b2[3])) {
        items[i].remove();
    }
}

This should delete anything completely outside the one artboard:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var items = doc.pageItems;
for (var i = items.length - 1; i > -1; i--) {
    var b1 = items[i].geometricBounds;
    var b2 = doc.artboards[0].artboardRect;
    if ((b1[2] < b2[0] || b1[0] > b2[2]) || 
        (b1[3] > b2[1] || b1[1] < b2[3])) {
        items[i].remove();
    }
}

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