Find and replace text across multiple Illustrator files

[waynet93399211]

With the printers now looking for AI or EPS files, I have run into this problem a lot.

Is there a way to find and replace text across multiple Illustrator files like you can do in Indesign & Dreamweaver? It would save me days of double-clicking and pasting.

Please help.

Wayne

[blinkdotbiz]

Fantastic, Thanks.

Just what I needed to update small amount of text in hundreds of book illustrations.

However I do lose the text formatting which is a bit of a problem.

[ReingoldPredmore]

Hi @CarlosCanto, I have some Illustrator artwork that includes financial data that was created which formats text with periods (eg. $1.000.000) but I need to change to format it with comas (eg. $1,000,000). I tried to use this script by replacing . with , but that didn't work (it turned all my text into comas). Is there a particular way I should search or is there a way the script can be modified to account for that type of query?

Thanks in advance!

[CarlosCanto]

hi @ReingoldPredmore, add a backslash before the dot "\."

the dot by itself it's a reserved character that represents every character

that should take care of the problem.

[冠华21794499f6tf]

After testing, the following metacharacters are not executed correctly: ^ $ /n (?<=) (?<!) (?=) (?!)

[Jake22822171933f]

Hi Carlos.

This script ALMOST works for me. I'm trying to replace any periods/full stops with commas but when I do that, it replaces all text with commas. Is there something I can add to the script to fix that maybe?

Thanks!

[Jake22822171933f]

Ignore me! Didn't see page 2 of this thread and someone asked exactly what I needed. Thanks so much!