I want to make a useful calendar in AI. Thus far I have made 12 columns, which each stand for a month, and around 31 boxes in each with days and weekdays listed. There has to be a box because I want to have a space to write some short notes in them as I’m … Read more
I’m looking a way or tool to divide a spline or path in equal parts, or, what is the same, equidistant points (anchors). This is a very common question, but i haven’t found an answer. Also, is pretty simple to do by a script, but there’s none. Is possible that i haven’t searched well, but … Read more
How can one reference a sublayer in functions like setLayerVisibility, that accept layer names as arguments? I tried setLayerVisibility(“MyLayerName.MySublayerName”, true) , but that was ineffective. Answer the function may not be set up to look for sublayers, even if you pass the correct sublayer name. If it is, you can do something like… var myLayer … Read more
This is a followup question to the answer in script-to-automatically-snap-all-points-to-grid-in-adobe-illustrator. In the answer getIntegerPreference is used to find the grid setting. But the question is: How does one know what keys to query? So how are we to know what keys to use like in the example below (keys in bold): var ticks = prf.getIntegerPreference(‘Grid/Horizontal/Ticks’); … Read more
I have a large number of icons that I need to place at specific points throughout my document and as far as I can tell the paste function in Illustrator only places the point in either i) the center of the view or ii) at the same position as the original object that was copied … Read more
In the old days, if someone had a scientific graph, then readers would only have access to the rastered image. So if you wanted to get the raw data from the plot, you could use something like DataThief or Webplotdigitizer on a rastered image like the one below. These days, scientific publications usually require authors … Read more
Is that possible to connect dots in Adobe Illustrator, automatically? To do something like this: Answer All Points v.1.3 This script simply draws a line from every point to every other point of your selected pathitem. Handy for making Mandalas. Try on polygons, stars or even freehand shapes. From: http://www.wundes.com/JS4AI/ AttributionSource : Link , Question … Read more
I have 18 artworks in an .eps file. I wonder what is the best way to extract/export one of those artwork into a .png/.jpg ? Example I’m not sure if this possible, but is there a way to export all of them into individual .png files. Any helps / suggestions on this will be much … Read more
I wonder if there is any automated way of doing animations like on https://www.dropbox.com/ An image is really a set of frames that is cyckled through with javascript. What I would like to know is if there is an easy way to make each frame in Illustrator. I can of course do each frame manually … Read more
After importing from PDF I have several single line point text objects which I want to convert to one multiline text area object. Currently I have several lines of text represented as separate point text objects: I want to have one text area for the whole paragraph: Also I would like to automate this somehow, … Read more
