Exporting color information and font sizes from Illustrator to PDF

Question

I am looking for some tool that would allow me to export the all the artboards from Illustrator to PDF (can also be any common image file) that would automatically create:

• labels with colors used (preferably RGB)
• labels with font sizes, pointed to a given label when the font has been used

Answer 1

You can make a script. You could have it analyze each object for its fillColor and then create a label on a new layer that's either on top of the object or offset. If the object is a text frame, then you can have it look for various characterAttributes such as font size, and then create a label for that as well. Illustrator allows you to script PDF exports as well; see PDFSaveOptions in the scripting reference.