Simple text variable to populate current Illustrator document file name on my Illustrator artboard.

[Evan35136893it4m]

I cannot find a script or a function in Illustrator that will create a text box that automatically populates with my current illustrator document file name?

This is very easily done in InDesign by going to the Type menu > Text Variables > Insert Variable > File Name. But this is not available in Illustrator for some reason. Does anyone have any suggestions?

[kglad]

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[Monika Gause]

Does this do it?

https://community.adobe.com/t5/illustrator-discussions/how-to-script-illustrator-to-insert-filename-... 

[Evan35136893it4m]

Thanks for sharing this @Monika Gause !

I tried copying the script from that post you referenced (see script below) but I keep getting a syntax error (see screenshot) when I try to import it into Illustrator. It’s very likely I’m doing something wrong – I have very limited experience dealing with scripts. 

Script copied from reference post:

// CODE BEGIN
var pointTextRef = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add();
pointTextRef.contents = app.activeDocument.name;
pointTextRef.top = 20;
pointTextRef.left = 10;
// CODE END 

[pixxxelschubser]

Do not save it in Word!

Save it with Editor or similar as (plain text) .txt

And then simply rename the extension from .txt to .jsx