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Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator 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.

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator 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

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator 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!

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator 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.

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Tal Rotbart

Tal Rotbart — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 22:48:42 +0000

Hey Caitlin,

Try and see what happens when you try to manually export just that layer which is giving you problems (by making all other layers invisible and using File | Export. Let me know, and I’ll see if I can figure out your problem.

Cheers,
Tal

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Caitlin

Caitlin — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:08:40 +0000

On running the script, it seems to be “missing” several pieces of the layers I’m trying to export to PNG. For example, several grouped compound items are only being exported halfway. One of the groups items will be exported, while the other is nowhere to be found. Changing the depth doesn’t seem to affect this problem. Any idea what’s going on here?

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Tal Rotbart

Tal Rotbart — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 22:39:34 +0000

In CS2 the output DPI resolution of the outputted PNGs was forced to the DPI of the originating Photoshop document so setting it would affect the PNGs. Not sure if this is still the case in CS3.

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Mac McB

Mac McB — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:45:53 +0000

How can I modify this script to set the resolution property of the exported PNGs? (I’m on XP using CS3.)

I’m importing the PNGs into PowerPoint. PowerPoint uses the pixels per inch setting in the PNG file to determine the size of the image (in inches). I see how to change the dimensions of the PNGs themselves (thanks to this example ). But I can’t figure out how to set the ppi property of the exported PNGs.

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Gabriel Walt

Gabriel Walt — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:32:25 +0000

Just wanted to tell you to take care about the PDF export version of my previous message: it will discard your unsaved changes!

SO IMPERATIVELY SAVE YOUR FILE BEFORE EXPORTING AS PDF !!!

The solution would be to add a save instruction before the export, but I currently don’t have the time to do this…

Comment on Recursive Exporter for Adobe Illustrator by Gabriel Walt

Gabriel Walt — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:35:55 +0000

Hello,

To export the layers to separate PDF files, just replace the lines 212 to 219 of the script with the following code:

var file = new File(targetFolder.toString() + “/” + name);
var saveOptions = new PDFSaveOptions();
saveOptions.compatibility = PDFCompatibility.ACROBAT5;
saveOptions.generateThumbnails = true;
saveOptions.preserveEditability = false;
app.activeDocument.saveAs(file, saveOptions);

PS: I don’t think that, even with scripting, it is possible to automatically export each Illustrator layer to a separate page of a single PDF file. You’ll have to group all the exported PDF files by hand into one PDF file using for instance Adobe Acrobat Pro.

[Save your file before! See below for an important message from Gabriel regarding this script. -Tal]