Create Fitted Artboards from layers?

[Andymc7]

Hey everyone,

Does anyone know of a script that will create artboards for each separate layer?

Thanks in advance,

Andy

[Muppet Mark · Accepted solution]

While I think this is possible ( not actually tried this out ) it would only make sence to do… if each layer's art does not over lap in any way?

#target illustrator
main();
function main() {
          if ( app.documents.length == 0 ) { return; }
          var doc = app.activeDocument;
          doc.layers[0].hasSelectedArtwork = true;
          doc.fitArtboardToSelectedArt( 0 );
          doc.selection = null;
          for ( var  i = 1; i < doc.layers.length; i++ ) {
                    doc.artboards.add( [0,0,72,-72] );
                    doc.layers.hasSelectedArtwork = true;
                    doc.fitArtboardToSelectedArt( i );
                    doc.selection = null;
          };
};

[Zeldoron]

Thanks for making this!

[Hand Hugs]

Sorry to be a newb but can you tell me how I can run or execute this script on a file?

[CarlosCanto]

Hi HH,

Installing scripts in the Scripts menu

To include a script in the Scripts menu (File > Scripts), save the script in the Scripts folder, located in the

/lllustrator CC/Presets folder in your lllustrator CC installation directory, for example C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator CC 2018\Presets\en_US\Scripts

.

The script’s filename, minus

the file extension, appears in the Scripts menu.

Scripts that you add to the Scripts folder while Illustrator is running do not appear in the Scripts menu until

the next time you launch Illustrator.

Any number of scripts can be installed in the Scripts menu. If you have many scripts, use subfolders in the

Scripts folder to help organize the scripts in the Scripts menu. Each subfolder is displayed as a separate

submenu containing the scripts in that subfolder.

Executing scripts from the Other Scripts menu item

The Other Scripts item at the end of the Scripts menu (File > Scripts > Other Scripts) allows you to execute

scripts that are not installed in the Scripts folder.

Selecting Other Scripts displays a Browse dialog, which you use to navigate to a script file. When you select

the file, the script is executed.