Select and move to new layer

[Anthony Cambray]

Hi - i was wondering if anyone can help? A while back someone kindly supplied me this script which will move all my text which has been coloured up in a specific colour to a new layer. Along with the text we also use leader lines for diagrams which are also coloured up in the same colour. Is there a way of also selecting lines that have been produced either with the pen tool or the line tool and move those to the same layer. The only thing they have in common is they are coloured up in the same colour.

Many thanks

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;

try{

    var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add({name:"Text Black"}); 

}catch(e){myLayer = myDoc.layers.item('Text Black')};

myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().itemLayer = myLayer;

[Sudha_K]

Hi,

    Try using pageItem's constructor name to identify the items with color and then move into layer.

     line drawn by line line tool - Constructor name return as GraphicLine

     line drawn by pen tool - Constructor name return as Polygon

     var pgItm = app.selection[0]

     if(pgItm.constructor.name == "GraphicLine" || pgItm.constructor.name == "Polygon")

     {

          // code here

     }

[Anthony Cambray]

Hi - thank you for your reply but unfortunately it's not working. Pretty sure it's going to be something i'm doing wrong as I'm new to scripting.

[Sunil Yadav · Accepted solution]

Hi There,

Try This code...

var myDoc = app.activeDocument;
try{
    var myLayer = myDoc.layers.add({name:"Text Black"});
    }
catch(e){
    myLayer = myDoc.layers.item('Text Black');
    }
myDoc.textFrames.everyItem().itemLayer = myLayer;
myDoc.graphicLines.everyItem().itemLayer = myLayer;
myDoc.polygons.everyItem().itemLayer = myLayer;

Best

Sunil

[Anthony Cambray]

Great - worked a treat once I'd ungrouped the elements. Out of interest would there be a way of setting the text black stroke to overprint?

Thanks again!!!!