Change artboard name to file name

[UXexplorer]

I need to stack process 900+ .ai files so that the artboards become renamed after the file itself.

There are a ton of direction if you want to name a file after its artboard but not the way around.

Thanks for the effort!

[Mike Bro]

hello @UXexplorer,

Give the below script a try... just run the script on the folder that contains your files.

var main = function() {

var myDirectory = Folder.selectDialog("Select files folder");
var files = myDirectory.getFiles(/.(ai|eps)$/i);

for(var f = 0; f < files.length; f++){
 var doc = app.open(files[f]);
 var myDocName = doc.name;

for(var a = 0; a < doc.artboards.length; a++) {
  doc.artboards.setActiveArtboardIndex(a);
    doc.artboards[a].name = myDocName + "_" + (a+1);  
      artboardName = doc.artboards[a].name.toString();
  }
  app.activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);
 }
 alert("Done renaming Artboards on " + files.length + " files!")
}
main();

Regards,

Mike

[Rob.Wood]

Hi

This looks like the script that I need - but where do I run it from? Inside Illustrator? I'm getting an error there (a yellow triangle with exclamation mark, no words)

Cheers

R

[renél80416020]

Ce script fonctionne.

copiez le texte

puis enregistrez sous le nom de votre choix.js

puis dans Illustrator

<CTRL>+F12

....

[Rob.Wood]

I used Script Editor, compiled as Javascript and ran it from Illustrator > Scripts and all I get is a non-specific error — and the Illustrator Menus stop working too.

[renél80416020]

Bonjour Rob,

Il faut copier le texte dans un éditeur de texte et l'enregistrer avec l'extension .js ou .jsx

Ce doit être du texte pure qui sera interprété par Illustrator au lancement du script.

Vous pouvez utiliser ExtendScript Toolkit.exe si ce programme est installé sur votre système.