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$300 For 2 Photoshop/Illustrator scripts- Applescript Preffered

I have been meaning to write these myself for months, but have been too busy, so we're trying to hire someone. We would prefer these to be mostly Applescript, because I know Applescript and will be...

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Make Illustrator read external data, xml or txt and create files automatically

Hello all, Has anyone automated AI so much so that it can read instructions from an external source like xml or txt and automatically creates files and folders. For example we have something like...

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javascript: copy an object to a new layer and tracing it

Hello everybody: I'm using Illustrator CS5 on Mac. I need to copy an objecto to a new layer and tracing it. I'm trying to execute the script above. There is no problem with the copy to a new layer, but...

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Changing the text in a scriptUI window

I'm sure it's trivial, but i cannot get it.I've got his window displaying my document's name and a button that triggers an action (init)When going to another illustrator document, since my init action...

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How can I make the stroke the same as the fill in Illustrator?

In Illustrator I converted a photograph to outlines, which creates hundreds of shapes filled with various colors. However, the stroke on the objects is blue. I want to change the color of the stroke to...

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Place 2 objects into a new layer and rename that layer

Hi All Have a little problem and need your help:- I have an ai with hundreds of objects in it. All in one layer.- There are two types of objects: blocks and textlayers (numbers). So each block has a...

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Copy artboard (and art) to another document

Is there a way to write a script to copy a selected/chosen artboard (and it's contents) to another opened document, placing it in exactly the same place on the global x/y coordinates?  I'm either...

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Open all pages in a PDF and save them as sequential files

I'm trying to make a script that will open all pages in a multi-page PDF and save them as sequential files, but I have had no luck with the simple script in the "Adobe Ilustrator CS5 Reference:...

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"Isolation Mode" and Javascript.

Hi All, Does anyone know of a way to get out of IsolationMode using Javascript? I am trying to create a Duplicate of a Selection on a Tempory Layer.The selection is often quickest to get to by...

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AIEvents in CC

AIEvents are not working in Illustrator CC.          var adapter:AIEventAdapter = AIEventAdapter.getInstance();         adapter.addEventListener(AIEvent.ART_SELECTION_CHANGED,selectionHandl er);...

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Script to get names of placed images into text file for our database?

I know nothing about scripting in Illustrator, but am willing and interested to give it a try if this sounds doable.  All we want are the names--just a simple list of the names, such as7009 LL.epsRsb...

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Batch combine files into one illustrator document - how to open target document?

I am making a script which will: 1) Open a folder of Illustrator files2) Open each file in the folder (these files are called the source files)3) Select all the contents of the source file4) Copy the...

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Same code, different result (load the library...)

I have to use external library. So I programmed short code. But...  It's work in Illustrator CS3 var samplelib= 'C:/Program Files (x86)/Adobe/Adobe Bridge CS3/webaccesslib.dll'; mylib = new...

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Secured PDF from Illustrator CS6

I've been banging my head against the wall on this for awhile and I can't figure out what I'm missing. My script updates the filename and date on an Illustrator file and exports a secured PDF that will...

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Batch export .ai files to pdf

Hi guys, I found a script that does the job, export tones of ai files to pdf, but I have some files which are in sub folders, and I was trying to find a way to modify this script to include subfolder,...

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Convert text to paths

Hello everyone, I'm trying to make a script that converts the text to paths, but could not find a method to do this, can anyone give me a tip or sample only as a starting point?   thank you very much

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Improving Precision when scaling to exact pixel size

Hi All, I'm very new to javascript and illustrator scripting, so I'm pretty sure my problem might be easily fixed  I'm trying to write a script for creating PNGs with a specified pixel size.  I have...

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Export position and content of text

I have a hundreds of names in text boxes and want to export those names as strings and the position ofthose names into a simple text file with the followingformatting: name,posx,posy...

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Changing linked pages automatically

Hello everyone, my question is this, I have a file where I insert links that contains two or more pages, and then I relink with changing, for example from page two to page three, there is a way to do...

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JavaScript BridgeTalk and MRAP errors

I have a rather complex JavaScript wihch involves copying elements from an artwork layer to a "working" layer, outlining all of the text and then determining the distance between elements. It works...

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