scriptographer. object/layer select

i whipped up this "suite" of scriptographer scripts in an answer to a problem posed by my friend andy.

quite simply it selects objects in Illustrator based on item/sub-layer name. i never name my layers or items. so typically my layers palette looks something like this



either by double clicking the sub-layer name or by using this script layer_itemRename_0_1_2.js you can rename the item/sub-layer or rename all of the items/sub-layers that have the same name.



now when the items are copied, they retain their name, so all you have to do is select an an item and run layer_itemSelect_0_35.js. the script will then select all of the items that have it's same name.





i haven't fully tested these scripts 100%, so they may still be buggy. eventually i'll post them on the scriptographer site.

update
since losing my previous host, i'm slowly migrating all of my source code to github.com, in doing so i've updated these scripts to the latest scriptographer api (2.9)

grab the source layer_itemRename_0_1.js and layer_itemSelect_0_35.js

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Permalink  30 June 2009, 9:05:00 PM