Comments on: Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator

By: Tal Rotbart

Tal Rotbart — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:47:35 +0000

Thanks John! Appreciated!

By: John

John — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:30:39 +0000

Tal, Thanks for the script! Exactly what I was looking for.
I found that it tended to cut away about 1 pixel on the right and bottom, did some searching & found that it was a known illustrator error (at least in CS3). I solved this by editing the lines just after “if (obj.visibleBounds != null)” to:
bounds[0] = obj.visibleBounds[0] -1
bounds[1] = obj.visibleBounds[1] +1
bounds[2] = obj.visibleBounds[2] +1
bounds[3] = obj.visibleBounds[3] -1
return bounds;
Thanks again!

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 01:14:41 +0000

That was it. Thanks!

By: Tal Rotbart

Tal Rotbart — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 22:23:43 +0000

Hi Brian!

The syntax error is most likely caused by the inverse double-quotes, they should both be normal double-quotes:

Line 212 should be:
var file = new File(targetFolder.toString() + "/" + name);

WordPress attempts to style the comments and a copy-and-paste from the comment would have retained the inverse quote.

Cheers & HTH,
Tal

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 21:49:44 +0000

Excited to see the pdf version above from Gabriel Walt.

Unfortunately, I’m getting this error when I try to use it.

“Error 8: Syntax Error
Line: 212
- > var file = new File(targetFolder.toString() + “/” + name);

Any Ideas?

This script has become an integral part of my daily workflow. Thanks Again.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 00:28:40 +0000

Tal -

I love this script! Can you help me make it export each layer to an illustrator eps?
I would also like to adjust it to export out a higher resoulution JPEG file.

Thanks for your help!

Matt

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:20:21 +0000

Thanks for your response! I’ve gotta sort out these niggling details by hand, but I appreciate you taking the time to look at it anyway.

By: Tal Rotbart

Tal Rotbart — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 00:09:57 +0000

Hey Caitlin,

From the image of the issue you sent I have an educated guess where the problem lies — function getAllItems(obj) in the script probably doesn’t return the right sub-items for a group containing compound items.

Because of current work obligations I don’t have access (again!) to Illustrator CS2/3 for the next couple of weeks. I’d be really glad for anyone monitoring the comment feed on this entry to try and assist.

Cheers,
Tal

By: Caitlin

Caitlin — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:10:13 +0000

Hey Gabriel,
I definitely tried it correctly. The vast majority of the layers work properly, but this one little issue remains.

Tal,
Thanks for the quick response! I exported it manually, and it works just fine. Still having issues with your script, however. Here’s the issue in images for more clarity:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mlle_cait/3004820989/

Thanks!

By: Gabriel Walt

Gabriel Walt — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 09:47:30 +0000

Hello Caitlin,

Just to make sure you tried it correctly: the layers you want to be exported all need to have their visibility turned on.