Why swapping multiple colors of multiple objects at once not possible?

[Frans van der Vleuten]

Hello,

If you select an object in Illustrator, you can swap the fill and stroke colours of that objects, obviously.

If you select multiple objects with for example different stroke colors, the swapping tool is in ghost.

Why is this? The swapping of the colors is happening within the object. It should be a legitimate action to swap multiple objects with different colors.

Who's with me. 

[Kurt Gold]

InDesign can do it by default. In Illustrator you may use a script.

Among others, @femkeblanco has written a good one (see below).

// Script by femkeblanco
// to swap fills and strokes of selected items
var array = [];
function push(items) {
    for (var i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
        if (items[i].typename == "PathItem") {
            array.push(items[i]);
        } else if (items[i].typename == "GroupItem") {
            push(items[i].pageItems);
        } else if (items[i].typename == "CompoundPathItem") {
            push(items[i].pathItems);
        }
    }
}
push(app.selection);
for (var i = 0; i < array.length; i++) {
    var fill = array[i].fillColor;
    var stroke = array[i].strokeColor;
    array[i].fillColor = stroke;
    if (!array[i].stroked) array[i].stroked = true;
    array[i].strokeColor = fill;
}