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Remove clipping mask

Community Beginner ,
Nov 10, 2008 Nov 10, 2008

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I need to remove the clipping mask in illustrator file through programmatically(Visual Basic (or) Javascript). Kindly advice me.

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Explorer , Jan 07, 2013 Jan 07, 2013

I realize this is an old thread, but I ran across it while looking for a solution to removing multiple clipping masks scattered throughout a document.

If you need to remove all the clipping masks from a document, here is a pretty simple script that will check all the pageItems and remove any that are being used as a clipping mask.

Comment out the last line if you don't want to see how many paths were deleted.  Its not a necesarry feature, but I like to know how many objects get deleted when I run

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Dec 21, 2021 Dec 21, 2021

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You rock, Carlos. Very useful script, thank you for updating it here.

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