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Adobe Illustrator script that replace text with text from array. Script then creates outlines of that text and save it as pdf file in provided directory. Greate for wedding invitation :).
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/* | |
do What The Fuck you want to Public License | |
Version 1.0, August 2015 | |
Copyright (C) 2015 Tomasz Kwolek. | |
www.pastez.com | |
www.cheerapp.pl | |
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies | |
of this license document, but changing it is not allowed. | |
Ok, the purpose of this license is simple | |
and you just | |
DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. | |
*/ | |
var textToReplace = prompt('text to replace') | |
var names = ['a', 'b', 'c']; | |
var file = new File().openDlg(); | |
var destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save PDF files.', '~' ); | |
var doc = open(file); | |
for (i = 0; i < doc.textFrames.length; i++) | |
{ | |
contentString = doc.textFrames[i].contents; | |
if (contentString.indexOf(textToReplace) != -1) | |
{ | |
for(var idx = 0; idx < names.length; idx++) | |
{ | |
doc.textFrames[i].contents = names[idx]; | |
doc.textFrames[i].createOutline(); | |
targetFile = new File(destFolder + '/' + names[idx] + '.pdf'); | |
pdfSaveOpts = getPDFOptions(); | |
doc.saveAs(targetFile, pdfSaveOpts); | |
undo(); | |
} | |
} | |
} | |
activeDocument.close(SaveOptions.DONOTSAVECHANGES); | |
function getPDFOptions() | |
{ | |
var pdfSaveOpts = new PDFSaveOptions(); | |
pdfSaveOpts.acrobatLayers = false; | |
pdfSaveOpts.colorBars = false; | |
pdfSaveOpts.colorCompression = CompressionQuality.AUTOMATICJPEGHIGH; | |
pdfSaveOpts.compressArt = true; | |
pdfSaveOpts.embedICCProfile = true; | |
pdfSaveOpts.enablePlainText = true; | |
pdfSaveOpts.generateThumbnails = false; | |
pdfSaveOpts.optimization = true; | |
pdfSaveOpts.pageInformation = false; | |
return pdfSaveOpts; | |
} |
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