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You can use the script from AjarProductions : Convert Illustrator Point/Path Text to Area Text This script will convert point text and text on a path into area text. You select multiple text fields and the script will convert them all. Works fine for me on Illustrator CS5. Code of the script copied below, in case the page goes missing: //Convert to ...

There are different ways to achieve what you're after. You just have to decide what works best for your workflow/platform. Have the script assign all *.ai files in a given directory to an array, then loop through. If you're on OS X, set up an AppleScript droplet that will do the same as option 1 for any directory dropped on it. Create a file prompt at the ...

Turns out that the (badly named IMHO) "changeLineWidths" parameter is not a boolean but a scaling factor just like the x and y parameters. So this is solved like this: var scale = 20; // scale down to 20% item.resize( scale , // x scale , // y true, // changePositions true, // changeFillPatterns true, // changeFillGradients true, // ...

Not sure if this will work for Illustrator, but in Photoshop I've had success using this method in a configurator panel: #include "coreFunctions.jsx"; saveImage("jpg", "", "web", "", ""); The above code is the contents of a file called "jpeg@72.jsx", which calls the function "saveImage" (a user created function), declared in the coreFunctions.jsx file.

Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think Illustrator is meant for that sort of thing. But, as someone who likes to use Illustrator all the time, it's good to see if we can find a solution in it! You can probably make a script. Illustrator's Document object has a print() method that lets you set print options. If you're not familiar with ...

Point text and area text are such different objects under the hood that there's no instant way to convert from one to the other. Many typographic functions tied to paragraphs, such as the Single Line and Paragraph Composers, justification, text wrap and hyphenation are inapplicable to point type. As DA01 says, the simplest way to do this is to select the ...