Select objects with the same name in illustrator

Yes but it's still about looping through objects. InDesign has a concept of collections and methods that allow reaching members of the collection.

So basically it would be something like myPageItems.everyItem().doSomething() or myPageItems.everyItem().aProperty = …

Nothing similar with Illustrator as it seems to be.

FWIW

Loic

var name = "bars"; var objectsWithNameBars = new Array(); for(var i=0; i< app.documents[0].pageItems.length;i++){     var item = app.documents[0].pageItems;     if(item.name.toLowerCase() == "bars")           objectsWithNameBars.push(item) } app.selection = objectsWithNameBars; This code will select all objects with name BARS, bars or BARS. Hope its helpful

Thanks

Hi,

app.activeDocument.pages[0].allPageItems[1]

seems like InDesign script. Illustrator has no concept of pages and the property allPageItems neither exist in the Illustrator DOM.

app.activeDocument.pageItems will however return every single item just as allPageItems for InDesign. So you can loop through them and check the type for action.

Keep in mind though that it may be more efficient and precise to reference the specific illustrator collection of items such as pathItems, groupItems, etc. )

HTH

Loic