How batch rename artboards in Adobe illustrator?

Question

Is there a way to batch rename a bunch of selected artboards in illustrator?

any script or plug-in appreciated...

Partly Answer:

Edited code of @GoodJobStudios; In this edit, the Variable counter of Artboards and increment number are different. It causes the script to numbering the range you want from 1, and not numbering by artboard index number.

  function artBoardName_serial() {
    var doc = app.activeDocument;  
var start=(0)-1;
    for (var i = start, l = doc.artboards.length; i < l; i++) {  
        if (doc.artboards[i].active) {
                }
                // THIS IS WHERE THE RENAMING HAPPENS
                doc.artboards[i].name = "agha"+((i-start)+1);  
            }    
    }

function renameArtBoard_MAIN() {
    if (app.documents.length == 0) {  
alert("No Open / Active Document Found");  
    } else {  
        artBoardName_serial();
    }  
}

renameArtBoard_MAIN();

Answer 1

This works (save as .jsx in your script folder)

      function artBoardName_serial() {
        var doc = app.activeDocument;  
        for (var i = 0, l = doc.artboards.length; i < l; i++) {  
            if (doc.artboards[i].active) {
                    }
                    // THIS IS WHERE THE RENAMING HAPPENS
                    doc.artboards[i].name = "a"+(i+1);  
                }    
        }

    function renameArtBoard_MAIN() {
        if (app.documents.length == 0) {  
    alert("No Open / Active Document Found");  
        } else {  
            artBoardName_serial();
        }  
    }

    renameArtBoard_MAIN();

Answer 2

It is not currently possible to script this because its not possible to know which artboards are selected. There is no such hook in the scripting api*. But its possible to change name just not based on selection.

It is possible that the plugin API has these functions, but given that only newest version o illustrator CC can even inteligently do this I doubut its well documented. Atleast in the current SDK there seems to be no mention of this. So given that thi sis the case and if we add the extra overhead of plugin development its not worth the time involved.

* This is what happens when the API is not a core design feature of your application, one can not really add a API it must be the first thing that is done every time something gets done.

Answer 3

Building on GoodJobStudios's code from the accepted answer, this script will give the user find-and-replace prompts. Save as .jsx, open your Illustrator file, and run script from File -> Scripts -> Other Scripts -> Find and select the saved .jsx file.

Alternatively, if on MacOS, save the file to your Illustrator script presets [HDNAME]/Applications/Adobe Illustrator 2021/Presets.localized/en_US/Scripts/ to keep the file easily accessible until a new version of Illustrator is released.

  function artBoardName_serial() {
    var doc = app.activeDocument,
        searchtext = prompt("Artboard name substring to find:", ""),
        replacetext = prompt("Replace found text with:", "");
    if (searchtext == undefined || searchtext === "") {
      alert("Text to find cannot be blank.");
    } else {
      for (var i = 0, l = doc.artboards.length; i < l; i++) {
        doc.artboards[i].name = doc.artboards[i].name.replace(searchtext,replacetext);
      }
    }
  }

  function renameArtBoard_MAIN() {
    if (app.documents.length == 0) {
      alert("No Open / Active Document Found");
    } else {
      artBoardName_serial();
    }
  }
  renameArtBoard_MAIN();