Is it possible to create droplet?

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March 14, 2009
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Is it possible to create a droplet in "illustrator cs"?

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_Prabudass_Author

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Thanks for your response.

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_Bob_Ostrom_Studio_

Participant

You could try doing a batch conversion.
Start by creating an action (actions are listed under the the window menu).
Once you've created an action you can then run it as a batch.
Select the action you have created.
Next click the upper right corner of the actions panel and select batch from the drop down menu.
Locate your source folder and select a destination, then hit okay.

claidheamdanns

Participating Frequently

Okay, but that is not really a droplet. In Photoshop you can create droplets out of your actions and it generates an miniature program that you save to your hard drive. From then on, all files dropped on that mini-program are submitted to the step outlined in the action (hence the name droplet). I've also looked for a way to do this in Illustrator CS4 and have not found a way.

Larry G. Schneider

Community Expert

The Batch menu item is available in AICS4 as well as CS3. You can't save it as a droplet but it can perform the action on a whole folder of files.

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_Prabudass_Author

Known Participant

Yes, i need for windows.

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__simon_

Participating Frequently

I only know how to achieve this on a Mac using AppleScript. I believe you're on Windows?

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ndee1

Participant

hello, i want to create an "action droplet" in illustrator (mac os). the results i want to get as output is a vectorised ai file (outlined) and a pdf from my ai file as input. would really appreciate if you can help me out.

thx

regards,

Tesh

claidheamdanns

Participating Frequently

thanks for the clarification ... i normally program/script my own stuff so i was not aware of the dropplet option for photoshop. However this script should do what it was asked above on a mac:

on open fLs
    repeat with file_ in fLs
        tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
            set file_ to POSIX path of file_
            open file_
            convert to paths (every text frame of document 1)
            embed (every placed item of document 1)
            save current document in file (dirname(file_) & "/export.pdf") as pdf with options {class:PDF save options, compatibility:Acrobat 5, preserve editability:true}
            close document 1 saving no
        end tell
    end repeat
end open

on dirname(thePath)
set thePath to quoted form of POSIX path of thePath
do shell script “dirname ” & thePath
end basename

hope it helps;

cheers;

Okay, I found where the scripts go, but when I test this it comes back with an unexpected end of line in:

do shell script “dirname ” & thePath

Here's the error it gives: