nvkelso/illustrator-scripts

JavaScript ExtendScript for automating and extending Adobe Illustrator

Kelso's Cartography and Graphic Design Scripts for Adobe Illustrator

I used to work for the Washington Post newspaper as a cartographer creating maps for daily publication. The two popular desktop graphics applications for mapping were Macromedia Freehand and Adode Illustrator. With Adobe's purchase of the former circa 2008 (primarily for Macromedia's Flash interactive content platform, what a wild ride that was) Freehand was end-of-life'd in favor of Illustrator. I hacked together some scripts to ease the transition. I also include a few other useful scripts and plugins for cartographers and graphics designers in the "other-authors" directory.

A pretty version documenting these scripts:

http://kelsocartography.com/scripts/

Installation

 1. Quit Illustrator
 2. Copy the files into the Illustrator application folder's "Presets" > "Scripts" subfolder
 3. After restarting Illustrator you can find the scripts in the menu "File" > "Scripts";

TIP: You can create subfolders in the scripts folder to organize your scripts (like they are organized here)

NOTE: Adopted from a guide by Wolfgang Reszel.

illustrator-scripts's Issues

What was url of old website JET studio

I would like to ask what the url was from the jet studio or where these scripts where. I would like to try something :)

Find and replace script fails when object has been renamed

Suppose I am trying to replace some objects by an ellipse.

findAndReplaceGraphic_centered returns an error when one of the selected objects have been renamed somehow.

If we select two objects like <Ellipse> and <Path> everything goes well.

However, if one of them has a name, like <Ellipse> and FooBar, the script returns the following error:

Error 25: Expected: ].
Line: 1
-> subArray1["object"]=[PathItem FooBar]

Scripts have expired

Hi, these selection scripts look great, but they seem to have expired?

Any chance you could remove the expiry date or de-obfuscate the source?

Thanks!