I've got a file with over 300 artboards. Each artboard has a unique name e.g. "symbol.hot.surface". I need to replace all the periods "." with an underline "_"
I'm pretty sure this can be done with a script, but that's beyond me. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Design Phoenix made an awesome script, I modified the script so that you get a prompt and enter in the values right in Illustrator
Script below:
#target illustrator
var doc = app.activeDocument;
jsfind = prompt("Find: ", "");
jsreplace = prompt("Replace: ", "");
for ( var i=0; i<doc.artboards.length ;i++) {
var aBoard = doc.artboards[i].active;
var oldName = doc.artboards[i].name;
doc.artboards[i].name = oldName.replace (jsfind, jsreplace);
}
Note, this script is case sensitive.
The script can easily be modified to work for layers instead of artboards. FindReplaceLayers.jsx
If you wanted to use REGEX while searching, just add the following line of code to the script:
var jsfindREGEX = new RegExp(jsfind,"g");
In this line replace jsfind with regex
oldName.replace (jsfindREGEX, jsreplace);
You can find both Regex script on Github.
FindReplaceArtboardsREGEX.jsxFindReplaceLayersREGEX.jsx
And as GerardFalla nicely pointed out, you can also use the layers script in Photoshop which is very helpful.
oldName.replace(str1, str2) will replace only the first occurence of str1 and OP's symbol.hot.surface will become symbol_hot.surface. To replace all the occurences you need to use regex instead of a string: oldName.replace(/\./g, str2)
Commented
Apr 3, 2019 at 6:05
Save This Code As "ArtboardReplace.jsx" or Whatever You Like
And Go To File-Script-Other Scripts.. And Browse! Enjoy!
//Replace "." with "_" Artboard illustrator script
#target illustrator
var doc = app.activeDocument;
for ( var i=0; i<doc.artboards.length ;i++) {
var aBoard = doc.artboards[i].active; // makes artboard active
var oldName = doc.artboards[i].name;
doc.artboards[i].name = oldName.replace (".", "_"); // replace . with _
}
