Image Crop Script

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“How do I crop a Photo in Illustrator?” is the All-Time hottest topic in the Adobe Illustrator Forum, there’s a long thread with answers that go from “not possible”, to “use Photoshop”, to “use clipping masks”, to “use Artboards”. The thread also has the real answer to the question, cropping raster images …

Carlos 12 January, 2016 9 January, 2019 Ai Scripts

Apply Live Effect – applyEffect (LiveEffectXML)

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Scripting Adobe Illustrator is painful at times, we don’t have access to some of the most useful features available to us manually using the UI, and we also don’t have the luxury of major upgrades to the DOM as ID or PS users have enjoyed for years. With the release …

Carlos 13 December, 2015 9 January, 2019 scripting tips

Create a – Text Block – out of selected Point Text Items

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This script creates a “Block” of text out of Selected Point Text Items, that is, it re-sizes each frame so they all have the same width. Back then when I wrote the script I didn’t know this layout style was called “SlabType”, otherwise I would have picked a more suitable name, …

Carlos 16 March, 2015 3 July, 2015 Ai Scripts

Armature: Drag-N-Drop Wireframing Tool for Illustrator

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The Armature Drag N Drop Wireframing Tool for Illustrator Ready-made Objects for Just About Everything Conceptualize web and mobile layouts quickly and efficiently by simply adding objects to any artboard. Armature’s well-organized, fully searchable library contains headers, footers, menus, tabs, toggles, tooltips, placeholders, content blocks, form elements and even complete …

Paal Joachim 4 February, 2015 10 February, 2015 Ai Scripts / News

Font List

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Font List This script simply creates a list of all Fonts seen by Illustrator

Carlos 27 March, 2014 30 January, 2015 Ai Scripts

Title Case

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Title Case Illustrator’s Title Case function is…how do we say it nicely?…hmm…it is very straight forward, it capitalizes the first letter of every word. While it works on some scenarios, it simply doesn’t cut it for properly capitalizing titles. Illustrator’s simple Title Case The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over …

Carlos 23 September, 2012 30 January, 2015 Ai Scripts

Fit Object to Artboard

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Fit Object to Artboard In Illustrator there’s a Fit Artboard to Selected Art feature. The next script does exactly the opposite, it fits Selected Object(s) to the Artboard. ↓ Download: fitObjectToArtboard_v2.zip

Carlos 23 September, 2012 30 January, 2015 Ai Scripts

Insert Page Numbers v2

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Insert Page Numbers v2 Artboards made their appearance in CS4, and ever since, users have asked the logical question “can I add page numbers to my Artboards?”. The Answers has been a quick “No”….until now, by way of a script. // Illustrator Insert Page Numbers v2 Script it’s primary use …

Carlos 16 September, 2012 30 January, 2015 Ai Scripts

Open multipage PDF

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Open Multi-Page PDF

Have you ever needed to edit a PDF in Illustrator? or maybe just open a PDF to copy a couple of elements? If you have, then you know that you have to open the PDF and choose the page you wish to open, close the file and if you need to work on a different page you have no choice but to repeat the process…as many times as needed. It gets annoying very quickly, there must be an easier way, right? Right, by way of a script, it will basically do all the tedious work for us.

Download: AI_openMultiPagePDF_CS4_CS5.v1.02.zip

Installing and Executing Scripts

Carlos 9 September, 2012 22 April, 2016 Ai Scripts

Thanks!!

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In the coming days I’ll start posting most of the scripts I’ve posted over at the Illustrator forum…this is all new to me, so let’s see how comes along. I’d like to show my gratitude to Paal, who offer to start the page and very patiently waited for me to come up with …

Carlos 25 August, 2012 14 November, 2018 News