Importing Text From A .txt File

[Prails_deisgn]

Hey guys,

I'm looking for a way to import text from a .txt file but I'm totally lost. If someone could point me in the right direction that would be awesome

[Gustavo Del Vechio · Accepted solution]

Hi Prails
This script is basically what you asked:

#target illustrator

#targetengine main

function copyText(){

    var textFile = File.openDialog ("Select the file");

    if (! textFile.exists || app.documents.length==0){

        return;

    };

    textFile.open("r");

    var txtContent = textFile.read();

    textFile.close();

    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    var textItem = doc.textFrames.add();

    textItem.contents = txtContent   

};

copyText ();

Basically what you need to do is declare the text file, open it, read the content and close it. Then, you create a new text item in the Illustrator document and write the content once catched into the text item.

You could continue to work with the variable "textItem" in my example script if you want to set properties like the size, color of the text, position and so on. Also, if you want, replace the first line of the function var textFile = new File ("~/Desktop/Test.txt"); by var textFile = File.openDialog ("Select the file"); so the scripts opens a dialog to ask you the file you want the copy the content.

Hope to be helped

Best Regards

Gustavo

Message was edited by: Gustavo Del Vechio

[Prails_deisgn]

Awesome! Yea this was exaclty what I was looking for really simple and straight forward.

Thanks man!