how to auto fit overset text in a fixed text frame?
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I import many languages into fixed text frames and it is a pain to keep resizing or scaling manually.
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As of yet I've been unable to source any javascript or applescript that can do it. The closest has been "JET_AutoFitVertical.jsx" but this resizes the text frames.
I saw scripts that adapt a box to the amount of text, but i'am looking for a script that does it the other way around. I have a amount of text that has to fit in a predefined box for example 50 x 30 mm.
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The script has to solve the text overflow issue by adapting the fontsize. Is this possible?
Is it possible to automate the rounding of font sizes if they are in decimal form? I have a few thousand files I have to prepare for upload and they can't have font sizes such as 8.214 which several do. With AppleScript would it be possible to identify and then round up or down such font sizes?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm using C5 Extended and have been using PS for years and suddenly I'm seeing something I haven't encountered before. My font sizes are being reduced "to the closest integer" which goes to 624.14 pt. My image is only 1000px x 150px so I'm not sure where the measurement discrepancy is happening.
I noticed it first when I made a copy of a box of text and then tried to drag the text copy.
I have a few hundred vector files each of various sizes. I want them resize the vector shapes to the scale fit to 300"x200" artboard.I want them all to appear centered on a 300"x200" artboard.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to find the smallest textframe within a group and then matching that textframe font size to the minimum size allowed for printing. Everything else works, except I can't figure out how to resize the textframe while also resizing its parent, the group.
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#target illustrator
docRef = app.activeDocument;
gpRef = docRef.groupItems[0];
var gpHeight = gpRef.height;
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I'm not even sure if I'm going about this the right way. Hoping a fresh set of eyes can take a look
Have to enter a lot of text snippets into illustrator cs4 every day, would love to make my live easier.
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I'm trying to figure out how to import text to illustrator automaticly.
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I have olny a few parameters: the text, what font to use, the size of the text (the text width and length in mm as if the text would be converted to outlines, needs to be exactly the right size) and the coulor.
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Usually its one line of text, sometimes more lines of wich i have the widht and length of the complete block of text
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The parameters could be in a cvs-file or something like that, ideally all texts would be imported in one file but it could be seperate files
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Texts should be converted to outlines and saved as AI version 3
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Is it possible to do this?
I should run a script in Illustrator once a day, automatically at 23 p.m.
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View 3 Replies View RelatedA client wants to modify vector drawings automatically via database, preferably Microsoft Sharepoint Server running SQL. The modifications could be as simple as changing the color of a flag or overlay or as complicated as changing object dimensions and appearance.
I'm thinking SVG, but is there a more efficient method, something that can modify Illustrator files directly?
I need to automatically create all the possible pattern combinations with 6 shapes and 6 colors.
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I have an Excell file with assigned color combinations (values from 1 to 6) in the rows, and the shape name (A to F) in the columns. Column 7 is a string containin the color combination names (i.d. 123456, 123345 etc...) so that I can output each combination with the color/numbers in the name.
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I'd like Illustrator to pick every row and assign the contained colors to each shape of the column and to export a .png with the name from column 7 content.
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Just simple as that! But to me it sounds pretty hard!Â
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Is there a script that makes it already posted somewhere? - i couldn't find any -Â or something simliar to start coding from?
Automated AI so much so that it can read instructions from an external source like xml or txt and automatically creates files and folders.
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For example we have something like this:
File1
Hello
Font: Myriad
Size: 22
Colour: Pantone 254C
Image 1.jpg (link)
Source: Image1.png (link) clipart1.eps (link)
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File2
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and so on.
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I want AI CS5 to:
1. create an eps File1, create a folder named File1, put File1.eps in it
2. type the text Hello, apply Myriad 22pt and PMS 254 to it, centre it to the artboard
3. Place all jpegs, pngs, eps source files on the artboard and embed them.
4. Save the file as eps legacy version 10, close the file and move to the next file.
My ai doc has a stretched font and when i subsequently added indepented words/phrases in different locations, they are all stretched as well. I only wanted the one stretch, so I will have to go in manually and will never get them exact, or just start fresh, so I wondered if there is a way to restore them to their original properties. Also is there a way to avoid what I did? It also stays in "stretch mode" when I typed in a different font, which is how I noticed because the o's are supposed to be almost a perfect circle and they were ovals, so it was obvious, although the first font wasn't to me.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI'm building a script that will open a dialog box allowing the user to select a font family from a drop down list (not a list of all of the fonts), and then compare that value against the fonts that are in use, highlighting everything that doesn't match. I have not yet built the dialog, but I've got everything else working as I want except the list of font families.
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The following code loops through the list of fonts (only 20 for testing purposes), compares the family name to the previous on the list (error trapped for the first loop), and pushes the family name (if it doesn't match the previous) into an array which will be used in the dialog box. With the two alerts at the bottom (for troubleshooting), I expect the alerts to show the same family name. For the first three fonts they do, but after that the array value is "undefined."Â
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var iCount = 20;
//var iCount = textFonts.length;
var nameHolder = "";
var nameArray = new Array();
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Questions:
1) Any speculation on why this behavior is happening (it isn't truetype versus opentype)?
2) Is there a better way to get the list of font families without duplicates??
2) Is an array the best way to populate a dropdown list in a JS dialog box??? [this will be my first dialog with a dropdown, the others have user-typed values]
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EDIT: Additional Info
When it reaches the ninth font in the list, the above script starts writing undefined, but when tested manually, as below, it works fine. Hmmm.
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alert (textFonts[9].family);
var nameArray = new Array();
nameArray.push(textFonts[9].family);
alert (nameArray[0]);
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EDIT: More info
tried replacing nameArray.push(familyName); with nameArray.splice(i,0,familyName); bad behavior remains
I save a document from .ai to .pdf in CS5 and it automatically goes to the size of the artwork bounds instead of the artboard or paper size.
View 7 Replies View RelatedI'd like to draw a box around some selected text (a textRange), however I can't figure out how to detemine the size or position of the text. The overall size of a textFrame is possible to find (not sure about position), but when you've got just a few characters selected I don't see any way to get the size or position.Â
View 6 Replies View Relatedtrying to make an object the exact size of the artboard. This is something I do on a daily basis for several different reasons and it would be very useful if this can happen automatically for whatever size the artboard may be. As I understand it the only way is with a script but I have no experience with making illustrator scripts, im definately no programmer. I have set up quickkeys in the past to copy from the artboard inputs when you are on the artboard tool but these round to the nearest .01 and this is not accurate enough for what I am working with. Also if I do this with multiple pages open illustrator is very slow to respond to the artboard tool.
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Below is a script that I saw on here that I believe may contain what I need but now knowing programming. Where to start on editing. All I need is the part where an object is placed on the artboard that is the exact same size as the artboard.Â
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#target illustrator function main() {    if (app.documents.length == 0) {         alert('Open a document before running this script');         return; // Stop script here no doc open…    } else {         var docRef = app.activeDocument;         with (docRef) {              if (selection.length == 0)
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how can I copy and paste position and size of two objects?
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Let's say I have a circle 2 x 2 cm and it's position is y 5cm x 5cm, I have a square of size 3 x 7 cm and it's position is y 0cm x 0cm.
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How do I copy and paste in a single command/step the circles position and size to square, so I can get square of 2 x 2 cm and it's position 5cm x 5cm?
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Something like copy + paste in place with a different logics. I hope You understand what I want.
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I'm doing it now manually, I'm copying size and position of one object to another [ctrl + c > ctrl + v] but it takes quiet a while,
I've had to rescale some artwork, but now I'm left with type sizes that are 71.68px tall, 34.51px tall, etc.
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Is there a script that'll snap all the text in a document to it's nearest whole number or 0.1 decimal?
I'm trying to resize my artboard to an exact mm size via a script so then I can add this to a batch i'm trying to achieve.
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I've been trying to use the following, but i cant work out how to add the size I want in mm?
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#target illustrator
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var docVB = doc.visibleBounds;
   var myVisibleBounds = doc.visibleBounds; //Rect, which is an array;
   myVisibleBounds[0] -= 20; //left coordinate (use negative values to add artboard)
   myVisibleBounds[1] += 20; //ltop coordinate
   myVisibleBounds[2] += 20; //right coordinate
   myVisibleBounds[3] -= 20; //bottom coordinate (use negative values to add artboard)
   doc.artboards[0].artboardRect = myVisibleBounds;
My font size top tab wont scroll up or down, it some times works in the side tool bar but not all the time.
View 2 Replies View RelatedWith the demise of my beloved Fireworks, I am giving Illustrator CC a try. Right off the bat it is unusable due to the microscopic font sizes in the UI, panels in particular. Is there any way to make the UI more readable?
View 28 Replies View RelatedI find myself in the unfortunate position of having to resize a lot of text by one point size. So I wanted to find the key command for decreasing the text size by 1 point. I found several things online that worked... except they decrease it by TWO points. Not one. They are:
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Command Shift .
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Both work... except they decrease the font by 2 point sizes. How can I make it go down only ONE point size?
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PS I'm using CS4. And I can't select all the text because I need some of it to stay as is... while reducing the size of other text. Oh, and I'm on an iMac.
I have lot of various fonts and various size of font used in a particular illustration. Can i able to know all the fonts and its size used in a single shot. Instead of going and checking one by one.
View 13 Replies View Relatedi mean, when re-sizing(transform) an image, it automatically blured the edges or the image itself(so the image looks fine), but when i installed the photoshop CS and un-installed it coz its expired already(demo) and installed the photoshop 7 again, the nightmare begins. when i resize an image i saw it pixelated(not good). is there any settings on this?? and when the 1st time i opened the photoshop 7, it tells me to install it on another volume(but i dont have another disk/ partition).
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Is there a way to change the size of the fonts in labels in the user interface within Illustrator itself? I thought there used to be a way in preferences some where, but that was a long time ago - maybe even pre-CS?
How do I change the scale of a drawing in illustrator and have the font size staying the same size.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have a very large PDF that I need to open in Photoshop (It is a template image). The size of the image is 125.9843" x 91.5354".
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However, when I open in Photoshop the image is automatically resized to about 106" x 79". I have tried to manually input the dimensions upon opening the file, however, when I open the file and check "Image Size" the dimensions are 106" x 79" again.
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I can open the image in Illustrator at the correct dimensions automatically, and the PDF file itself is at the correct dimensions.
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[I am using Photoshop CS5.1]