loop through layers and determine if its a text containing layer

[Kucuk87]

Hi,

I am trying to loop/iterate through all layers, determine if it's a "text-layer", if it is, set it's opacity to 0.

This is what I have so far:

var iapp = new Illustrator.Application();

var openoptions = new Illustrator.OpenOptions();

var idoc = iapp.Open("c:\\myFile.pdf", Illustrator.AiDocumentColorSpace.aiDocumentRGBColor, openoptions);

Illustrator.Layer mainlayer = idoc.Layers["Layer 1"];

foreach (Illustrator.GroupItem groupitem in idoc.GroupItems)
{
foreach (Illustrator.GroupItem item in groupitem.GroupItems)
{
/* determine here if its a textlayer */
if( ... ) // (item.TextFrames.Count > 0) perhaps?
{
item.Opacity = 0;
}

//item.Opacity = 15; //this indeed sets the layer opacity 15
}

}

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

Is that VB? Does your soloution need to be too?

#target illustrator
textLayersOff();
function textLayersOff() {
          var doc = app.activeDocument;
          for ( var i = 0; i < doc.layers.length; i++ ) {
                    if ( doc.layers.textFrames.length > 0 ) { doc.layers.opacity = 0; };
          };
};

This would check for text frames NOT their content… if any

[Kucuk87]

It's C#.

Thanks! Gonna give it a try to translate that into C# code.

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

As is… it ONLY looks for text frames at top level layer… if you have text in groups these can be endless so you would need recurse any such items…

[Kucuk87]

Hi Mark,

Thanks. Your response was helpful. Though, can you show me how to write a recursive loop, so it checks any layers for groups and it's underlaying items?

Regards

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

I posted a text outlining script in this forum some time back… It mines all layers/sub-layers/groups… Search resurse and you should find it…

[moluapple]

Why not direcrly loop through all textFrames, check it's parent: 1)layer -- that's OK, 2)groupItem -- get the groupItem.layer,

then set the layer's opacity.

[Muppet_Mark-phjQ9l]

I think you can do that… I unlocked and made visible all parents outlined then put back… was a while back fuzzy memory…