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Hello!
I am trying to automate a process I am currently working on. The process involves organizing the artboards into a specific order so that I can export the artboards into separate folders on a shared drive. Over the years, many of the illustrator files have been created with the artboards in random order, which is making this process take longer than I feel it needs to be.
For example:
I want the artboards to be in this order: #1 Proof #2 Artwork #3 Instructions #the remaining pages don't matter. Most of the files were created without the Production Jacket artboard until later, so most of the time it's at #5 or #6 with other various artboards ahead of it. I have a script/actions ready to go that will export pages 1 and 3 to a specific folder on a shared drive with everyone in the company. All of the files are good with pages 1 and 2 as that has remained the same over the years. So I need a way to automatically move artboards named "Instructions" into the page #3 slot so that the script/actions can do their thing and export to folders.
Is there a script that can automatically do this for me? I have approximately 12,000 files to organize!
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Sorry, I forgot to change Production Jacket to Instructions and can't figure out how to edit the original post. Sorry for the confusion!
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Hi @chris g, are you sure that re-ordering the artboards is best? What about adapting your current script to export artboards *by artboard name*? That might be easier to implement. Also what is your scripting skill level?
- Mark
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Also, you could look at my answer here about re-ordering artboards.
- Mark
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I have zero scripting experience unfortunately. I didn't even think that was an option to export by artboard name! I'll look into that and see if I can figure out a way to do that instead. Thanks for the suggestion!