Comments on: Script: Find and Replace Graphics version 2

By: california art

california art — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:37:22 +0000

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Script: Find and Replace Graphics version 2 « Kelso’s Corner…

By: George Coghill

George Coghill — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:07:18 +0000

Excellent, thank you!

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:00:47 +0000

@George: Check out John’s Swap Objects script at http://wundes.com/JS4AI/

By: George Coghill

George Coghill — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:58:37 +0000

Let’s say I have three (non-symbol) objects (or object groups, specifically) in a line. Need to swap the first & third objects.

In this specific case, they happen to all be the same size (button images). I had Button A, Button B and Button C. Client wanted the order to be C-B-A.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:53:59 +0000

@George: Glad you like it and thanks Mordy!

Can you describe your proposed functionality with an example workflow, please?

By: George Coghill

George Coghill — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:27:01 +0000

Excellent script! Mordy Golding sent me the link.

Would love to see a version that let me swap two objects, seems a similar functionality to what you have here but I’m no script guru.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 11:49:46 +0000

Hi Nathaniel, this script is awesome! You saved me hours of work. Thank you so much! Keep up the good work.

By: Nathaniel

Nathaniel — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:23:15 +0000

@Shuant: I’ve gotten this request before, but the solution is still not optimal. You’d essentially be replacing an artwork group made of the fill, stroke, and route number text with a symbol for the fill & stroke portion and then a route number text object that’s grouped with that symbol. I think you could get similar results by isolating those route symbols groups on their own layer, ungrouping, select all the stroke elements and delete. Then select all the fill parts and run the existing scripts on them. Then select all the text pieces and move x-y till they line up over the new backgroups. Then if you wanted, regroup individual clusters.

By: Shaunt

Shaunt — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 17:05:16 +0000

This is excellent! You have cut my work load in half!

Do you know if you will be releasing any updates that allow you to replace multiple symbols with one symbol, such as road shields exported from ArcMap that come out as 3 separate objects (the outline, the fill, and the highway number all being their own objects)?

By: Ken Pierce

Ken Pierce — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 19:33:50 +0000

Wow, I didn’t really even know you could do much scripting in Illustrator let alone that you could use javascript. This is very cool. I was exporting some point layers for someone figuring they could just change the symbology, ha ha. I figured you could just search and replace symbols. Surprise my web search brought me here, to a cartography site. Excellent.