Script for adjusting numerical values

[ryanp50725768]

Hi there

I am trying to make an Illustrator script that will change all numeric values in a drawing, but things are not going well.

I have some technical drawings with mesurements in mm, and I need to convert all to inches. The mesurements is just plain numbers - they are not to scale. The values are on their own layer.

I think it must be possible to make a script that takes all numeric values in a drawing, divide them by 25 (or something), and then put them back where they belong.

I hav seen a script for InDesign that does exactly that. It is called "Price adjuster" and it can adjust prices in for instance a cataloge, and convert prices from different currencys.

I have tried to make this script work in Illustrator, but unsurprisingly it did not work.

Can you suggest something?

[pixxxelschubser]

Please show something.

Are these real texts in Text frames?

Point text or area text?

There are text frames with other contents exists?

How the measurement is written/formatted?

[number][number][m][m] - 12mm

[number][number][space][m][m] - 12 mm

[number][number][dot][number][number][space][m][m] - 12.34 mm

[number][number][comma][number][number][space][m][m] - 12,34 mm

or in any other way?

Do you have an example document (with no confidential contents) for us for testing?

[femkeblanco]

It's doable, but I suggest you show us your document, either by sharing a screenshot of the relevant content or, preferably, an AI file (for me this has to be CS6 compatible).   

[Disposition_Dev]

for a given text frame, you can do the following:

var myTextFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames[0];

myTextFrame.contents = parseInt(myTextFrame.contents) * 25;

the "contents" property of the text frame is what holds the actual text that you can see. it's a string, so if you want to multiply it by something, you need to convert it to a number. Assuming you're working with integers, the above code should work fine. If you have decimals (floating points), then just swap parseInt() for parseFloat().

Then it's just a matter of running a loop of the above logic to change all the text frames.

[ryanp50725768]

Hi. Thank you for your answers.

I Tried your suggestion, DilliamWowling, and it works. But it would be nice if all the numbers could change in one go. I attach af sample file where the mesurements are in mm. These are the values that needs to be converted to inches.

Sample_mm2inch.ai 

[femkeblanco · Accepted solution]

var frames = app.activeDocument.textFrames;
for (var i = 0; i < frames.length; i++) {
  if (isNaN(frames[i].contents)) {continue};
  frames[i].contents = Number(frames[i].contents) / 25;
}

[ryanp50725768]

This is awesome! Thank you very much. All I have to do now is to ensure that all numbers are on the same layer. So I remove any text from the layer and Bingo!

Thanks