Script to delete paths

[benp13643622]

Hello,

I tinker with scripting but I'm nowhere near a pro.

I need an illustrator script that will find all paths that have no stroke, and delete them.

I feel like this script is really close with a little tweaking:

No Stroke No Fill not recognizing

But I'm having trouble tweaking it properly.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks!!

[Loic.Aigon]

If you are not confident with scripting, why not use an action script ?

First select some no path object.

Second, create an action

Third, menu/select/same stroke width

Delete

Stop Action recording

On next run, pick a no stroke item, run the action.

I know it's no script and you have to first select some object but you get the job done in a blink

[zertle · Accepted solution]

I think this should do it. Good luck!

#target illustrator
// it's best practice to wrap everything in a function
//   so that you don't accidentally mess up any global
//   variables
function RemoveNoStrokePaths() {
  // if there are no documents open then return, otherwise
  //   store a reference to the active document in 'doc'
  if( !app.documents.length ) return;
  var doc = app.activeDocument;
  // store a reference to all the PathItems in the active document
  var paths = doc.pathItems;
  // Since we might be removing items from the list, the item indices
  //   could change, and so should loop from the last index to the first
  for( var i = paths.length-1; i >= 0; i-- ) {
     // get reference to the current PathItem
     var curPath = paths;
     // if the PathItem has a stroke assigned, the 'stroked' property
     //   will equal 'true', so if it's false we know that the path
     //   doesn't have a stroke and we can remove it
     if( !curPath.stroked )
          curPath.remove();
   }
}
RemoveNoStrokePaths();

[benp13643622]

Yes!!

Thank you so much.

[schroef]

@zertle 

Thanks, very useful piece of code. Ive add && curPath.filled so i can clean empty items using script and then action