oh I see, it makes sense, reopening the pdf in ai will open the Ai portion of the file that doesn't have linked files anymore.   thanks for that and the other good pointers ... View more

try using "/" (forward slash) instead of "\". Windows works with both, mac might not.   also, can you post a screenshot of your spreadsheet column headers? ... View more

ok, perhaps you're entering the formulas in a csv file in excel? CSV files don't support formulas.    If that's the case, you should have a master excel file with formulas, then export to csv before using it in Illustrator. ... View more

I have no experience with Macs, your formula worked well on Windows once I replaced the curly quotes ... View more

oh damn, yeah it starts getting complicated quickly. Depending on the requirements, I don't deal with every possible scenario if I don't have to.   what if you 1. collect visible/lock info for each item in a layer     1.2 unlock/unhide all 2. select all 3. copy 4. Paste Remember Layers 5. switch to destination document 6. paste 7. restore visible/lock from saved info   guides could be excluded before copying opacity mask are trouble   would that work?   ... View more

unless there's a relatively new api method I don't know about, I duplicate artboards the way you described it. I duplicate each item on the artboard ... View more

you have "curly" quote marks at the beginning of Marketing, Finance and Management. Change those to "straight" quote marks     ... View more

how do I replicate the scrolling issue?  is this your setup? do you unhide each group at a time from top to bottom?      ... View more

awesome tip, I learned something today. ... View more

That's what I thought, but I've heard from a couple of clients they're having the same issue of missing linked images in the final pdf.   I have not seen this problem personally. ... View more

you need to start embedding from the bottom up. After each iteration the next item gets the previous items index, ie second item (index 1) will become index 0 after the first item (index 0) gets embedded.    this line reverses the process order for (var i = linkedItems.length-1; i>=0; i--) {   full script if (app.documents.length > 0) { var doc = app.activeDocument; var linkedItems = doc.placedItems; var count = 0; // for (var i = 0; i < linkedItems.length; i++) { for (var i = linkedItems.length-1; i>=0; i--) { var item = linkedItems[i]; if (!item.embedded) { try { item.embed(); count++; } catch (e) { alert("No se pudo incrustar el elemento: " + item.file.name + "\nError: " + e); } } } alert("Se incrustaron " + count + " elementos enlazados."); } else { alert("No hay documentos abiertos."); }   ... View more

Not showing in textbook    By @Sindhraj38713376urd9   what's not showing? The Script in the Scripts menu? yeah no, text books don't show third party scripts for the most part. Read the previous comments in this thread to get it to work. ... View more

I think CS6 big deals were play actions as you mentioned and executeMenuCommands ... View more

yes, use the same concept for applying character styles ... View more

Hi Carlos, I copy and pasted the command into TextEdit and saved as rich text and converted to JSX. By @Evan5C9D   you need to save the jsx file as Plain Text, not Rich Text ... View more

can you share your script to help debugging it? ... View more

awesome!! AHK is really a life saver when native options fall short. Is alwasy risky to send keystrokes but worth trying. ... View more

the mrap error usually ocurrs at random lines that shouldn't rise errors.   when you say you reduced the variables in loops, are you saying some variables are still in the loop?   I think gc() has never worked. ... View more

perhaps Dup shape, apply Graphic Style, restore fill from Dup, remove Dup? ... View more

@enisio1 I edited the topic title to try make it a bit clearer ... View more

try this pattern   /^TEST(?=\s)/ ... View more

your for loop is missing a closing bracket ... View more

if then would not work here because if the swatch does not exist, it will raise an error. So we need to use try-catch to direct the script to do something else when the swatch is not found   var idoc = app.activeDocument; var swatches = idoc.swatches; try { var mySwatch = swatches.getByName("CMYK Yellow"); alert ("swatch found"); } catch (e) { alert ("swatch not found") } ... View more

@alhan alberto_mazon m0922 perfecto! Gracias por reportar, esto ayuda a otros usuarios ... View more

Illustrator no esta disponible en el sistema operativo Androide, asi que cualquier aparato con ese sistema no sera capaz de usar illustrator por el momento. Tal vez en el futuro este disponible.   Por ahora podrias usar Illustrator On The Web en tu Tableta y corre en el Browser, esta en Beta. Mas informacion aqui https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/web/get-set-up/learn-the-basics/overview.html ... View more

yeah please share for everyone's benefit if you can ... View more

hmm I don't know what's happening, indeed it didn't download in Chrome when I clicked on the link, but right clicking and using "Saving link As..." works well ... View more