Illustrator - Automatic image superposition - Batch processing

Hello All,

Thanks Ton for meaningful answer.

I have been able to do what I was expecting using this method :

STEP 1
- Make a script with :

. open the main icon in Ai

. import the additional icon as a csv file (eg. the red dot, the triangle, etc.)

. save as csv file

. close

STEP 2

- Running this script with batch processing to process the whole set of icon.

(Strangely AI always asked to save the original file, at the end of the process, I choosed "cancel" option and it worked correctly).

I experiences a few bug :

- I wasn't able to make a script which was :

. open icon

. import aditionnal icon n°1

. save as csv

. delete aditionnal icon n°1

. import aditionnal icon n°2

. save as csv

. delete aditionnal icon n°1

... etc.

The reason was that the file was saved each time with the same name, overwriting the previous version, so I couldn't generate the whole bunch of icons.

- I had to separate each result I wanted in a specific folder: for example to process the icons with a red dot and then a blue circle, I had to ensure that there was 2 final folders to save the files in: a "red dot" folder and a "blue circle" one. Without that, the files also were saved with the same name, overwriting the previous file.