Illustrator -- Search and Replace Text

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This script introduces a basic feature that is missing from Illustrator. It allows you to search and replace text items in your current file, or in all open files.

You can use this tool for plain-text searches (replace "cat" with "dog") or even use Regular Expressions for your search (replace all instances of a four-digit number with another number).
The tool will process all the text frames in the file (or files) and will report how many changes it made when done.

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Illustrator -- Compare 2 AI Files

This script will compare two Illustrator files and will produce a detailed report of the differences between them. It can also create a visual representation of said differences by hiding all the identical parts and revealing the different ones.

Illustrator 10 -- Extract and Import text from mutiple files

This script is an improvement to a previous one... for the moment only for Illustrator version 10, but I'm working on one for the newer Illustrator versions as well.

This script will extract text captions from an entire folder of AI or EPS files and save them to a text or CSV file (which can then be edited in Excel or just a plain text editor). The captions can later on be imported automatically back to the same location as the original text. This is a perfect tool for various translation workflows.

Illustrator -- Sort Layers

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This script will sort all layers in an illustration based on their name, or on a pre-determined order read from an external CSV file.

Illustrator -- Rename Layers based on a CSV file

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Renames layers based on a pre-existing CSV file.

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Illustrator -- Export a Range of Layers (also CSV-based)

Exports some/all/criteria-based layers to a variety of formats.
Can also export layers based on the information from a pre-existing CSV file.

Illustrator -- Export/Apply Layer Visibility based on a CSV file

Creates a CSV file and saves in it the layer visibility info, or reads the layer/visibility info from a pre-existing CSV file and applies its contents to the illustration.

Illustrator -- Convert Text Type

This script will convert text in a text frame from one type to another.

Don't you just hate it when you start typing in Illustrator without first creating a text frame, and then discover that your text gets deformed when you change the size of its frame? Now you can change this type of text to "regular" text!

Illustrator -- Combine Text Frames

This script will combine all/selected text frames into a single one.

Illustrator -- Import/Export All Text Frames (TXT, XML)

This script will create a text or XML file with the text from all text frames of an illustration. The file can be edited and then imported back to the illustration.

There's also another version for this script, in which the full formatting information is included. The file can be edited (also in Trados) and then imported back to the illustration. Very useful for translation workflows.

Photoshop AutoSave, Illustrator AutoSave, InDesign AutoSave

Did it ever happened to you that you were working on an illustration in Illustrator, a layout in InDesign or an image in Photoshop for a long time and had forgotten to save it, when all of the sudden the application crashed or the power went out? Didn't you wish then that any of these applications would have an Auto-Save feature?

This application will automatically save the open document every x minutes or seconds.

(Windows only)