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artt74613267
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June 8, 2016
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Image processor or Batching or both? Is there a simpler way?

  • June 8, 2016
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I am trying to process a large quantity of .ai files to upload to a website. Should I use Image processor or Batching or both? Is there a simpler wayto batch and resize multiple images while at the same time having them resave with their original filename plus a suffix _ MAIN?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

Elisha

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JJMack
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 8, 2016

artt74613267 wrote:

I am trying to process a large quantity of .ai files to upload to a website.

Photoshop does not support .ai files well. It will open the as an EPS  or PDF. Any paths will be lost. Photoshop does nor save .ai file except export path to illustrator.  The .ai files save are not really usable by Photoshop.

CS2 shipped with many  patterns that are .ai files,  I also found some logo .ai files I had downloaded.  Image processor had no problem saving jpg file for those .ai Files.

Image Processor Pro is better than Image Processor.  Here is an Image Processor run.

JJMack
Inspiring
June 8, 2016

Batching would do the job. Image Processor does not do file naming (like adding _MAIN suffix). If you wanted to go that route you would need ImageProcessorPro https://sourceforge.net/projects/ps-scripts/files/Image%20Processor%20Pro/v3_2b1/ .

artt74613267
Participant
June 8, 2016

When I try to use batch, How can I resize the images? And... It has a problem opening my .ai files...the message it displays is import pdf? for each file?

Do you know what I am doing wrong?

Thanks.

Inspiring
June 8, 2016

IPP will open .ai files without the pop-up for each files, but, as JJMack said, it cannot save .ai files.

You can use Bridge to do a Batch Rename but I'm not quite sure how to resize without actually using Illustrator.