importing data from the text file into the layer--illustrator

[Rocky@]

Hi everyone,

I need a script to add the data from the seperate text file to the respective layer of illustrator file.

[femkeblanco]

Your question is very nonspecific, but here are the basic steps:  (1) read a file and (2) add the text to a layer (in this case, as area type).  (Replace "..." with the address to your file name.)

var address1 = "/C/Users/.../yourFileName.txt";
var file1 = new File(address1);
file1.open("e");
var contents1 = file1.read();
file1.close();
var doc1 = app.activeDocument;
var layer1 = doc1.layers.add();
var path1 = layer1.pathItems.rectangle(0, 0, doc1.width, doc1.height);
var text1 = activeDocument.textFrames.areaText(path1);
text1.contents = contents1;

[Rocky@]

Thanks femkeblanco,

Sorry for not mentioned in detail.

I need a code to update the data into the layer(eg., test) of the active document of illustrator. But the data from the text file was called by apple script and append through javascript. I dont need call directly from javascript.