iconifyit / ai-scripts

My collection of Ai JSX scripts I use day-to-day

Ai Scripts

My collection of Ai JSX scripts I use day-to-day

Installation

Copy the contents of this folder to Adobe Illustrator/Presets/EN_US/Scripting/

Replace EN_US with whatever language you are using.

Ai Sessions

This script will save a list of currently open documents to a small JSON file in your home directory. You can re-open the same collection of files any time by running the script and choesing the Session date from the list. Only the 10 most recent sessions are saved.

Usage:

1. Navigate to File / Scripts / Ai Sessions
2. Click Save to save the current session
3. To return to a session navigate to File / Scripts / Ai Sessions
4. Select the desired session date from the list

Batch Resize Artboards

This script will resize all artboards in all documents in a folder (such as a folder of SVG files).

Usage

1. Navigate to File / Scripts / Batch Resize Artboards
2. When prompted, select the desired folder of files to resize
3. When prompted, enter an integer value for the width/height of the new artboards.

Contact Sheet

This script creates a contact sheet from a source folder of SVG files. For more details see https://github.com/iconfinder/scripts-for-icondesigners/tree/master/icon-contact-sheet

Merge SVG Docs

This script will merge a folder of SVG files into a single document. Each SVG file will be placed on its own artboard. The artboard name will match the file name minus the file extension.

Since Illustrator is currently limited to 100 artboards per file, the script can only accommodate 100 files max. If you have more than 100 files, split them into multiple folders.

Usage

1. Navigate to File / Scripts / Merge SVG Docs
2. When prompted, select the desired folder of files to merge

MoveItemsToNearestPixel

This script will move all items in an illustrator file to the nearest pixel.

Usage

1. With an open Illustrator document
2. Navigate to File / Scripts / MoveItemsToNearestPixel

MultiExporter

Exports all groups or layers in an Illustrator document to individual SVG or PDF files.

This script is a modified version of the script by the same name by Matthew Ericson - [e-mail]

Copyright 2011 Matthew Ericson Comments or suggestions to [e-mail]

ResizeAllArtboards

This script resizes all artboards in an open Ai document.

Usage

1. Navigate to File / Scripts / Resize All Artboards
2. When prompted, enter an integer value for the width/height of the new artboards.

Smart Layer Export

This script exports any layers, Groups, or artboards whose name ends with .svg as an SVG file.

This script is a modified version of the script by the same name by P. J. Onori as part of the Iconic system. For more information, please visit

z_Adobe

This is an archive folder of the default Adobe Illustrator scripts.

z_Iconify

This is an archive folder of older versions of scripts I use.