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July 3, 2019
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Illustrator Script - Change Stroke color in a specific layer

  • July 3, 2019
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Hi there,

i try for just 4 hours now to get a function to change the stroke color of all objects in a layer "1".

with this script, every object is being recolored, this is working:

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

with (docRef) {

var newColor = makeColorCMYK(0,0,0,40);

for (var h = 0; h < pathItems.length; h++) {

        pathItems[h].strokeColor = newColor;

}

}

But if i only want to choose the pathItems in Layer "1", it doesn't work.

var newColor = makeColorCMYK(0,0,0,40);


var ln = '1';

var ol = docRef.layers.getByName(ln);

for (var i = 0; i < ol.pathItems.length; i++) {

    ol.pathItems[i].strokeColor = newColor;

}

I tried to lock the other layer and then to change color of all items, that are not locked. But didn't work either.

Where is my fault?

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Correct answer femkeblanco
var string1 = prompt("Target Layer Name", "targetLayerName");
var string2 = prompt("CMYK Color", "100, 0, 0, 0");
var splitString2 = string2.split(", ");
var targetLayer = app.activeDocument.layers[string1];
var color1 = new CMYKColor();
color1.cyan = splitString2[0];
color1.magenta = splitString2[1];
color1.yellow = splitString2[2];
color1.black = splitString2[3];
for (var i = 0; i < targetLayer.pageItems.length; i++) {
    targetLayer.pageItems[i].strokeColor = color1;
}

2 replies

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syntanjey
Inspiring
April 3, 2021

Hi ! Is the solution exists? the answer did't work for me!

 

Can somebody help with the script to change a stroke color in a specific layer?

femkeblanco
femkeblancoCorrect answer
Brainiac
April 3, 2021
var string1 = prompt("Target Layer Name", "targetLayerName");
var string2 = prompt("CMYK Color", "100, 0, 0, 0");
var splitString2 = string2.split(", ");
var targetLayer = app.activeDocument.layers[string1];
var color1 = new CMYKColor();
color1.cyan = splitString2[0];
color1.magenta = splitString2[1];
color1.yellow = splitString2[2];
color1.black = splitString2[3];
for (var i = 0; i < targetLayer.pageItems.length; i++) {
    targetLayer.pageItems[i].strokeColor = color1;
}
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    syntanjey
    Inspiring
    April 4, 2021

    It works! Thank you very much!!

    My code (more automated)

     

    var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var targetLayer = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName('targetlayername');
var color1 = new RGBColor();
color1.red = 0;
color1.green = 0;
color1.blue = 255;
for (var i = 0; i < targetLayer.pageItems.length; i++) {
targetLayer.pageItems[i].strokeColor = color1;
}
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    Developer1009
    Inspiring
    July 3, 2019

    Here you go, you can have a list of page items in a specific layer using following 2 lines of code

    Syntax :

    var layer = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName([Layername]);

    Actual Code:

    var layer = app.activeDocument.layers.getByName('1');       // '1' it is a name of the layer

    var pageItems = layer.pageItems;

    After this traverse on these pageItems. And I think your code does not work because it seems your pathItems are in group.

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