Illustrator Automator Action Pack
for Mac OS X Leopard
$24.99

Only $1.24 per action

Overview

This action pack extends the power of Automator in Leopard and Snow Leopard with 20 actions for use with Adobe Illustrator!

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Try Before You Buy

All of our Automator actions may be downloaded and run in demonstration mode for evaluation purposes. Actions running in demonstration mode will display periodic alerts, and are limited to processing a maximum of five items at a time. These limitations are removed when purchased and registered.

Included Actions

The following Automator actions are included with this action pack:

Close Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will close opened Illustrator images.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Files/Folders

Delete Empty Text Frames from Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will delete empty text frames from the Illustrator documents passed as input.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Filter Illustrator Documents by Color Mode

Description: This action will filter the input Illustrator documents for documents matching the specified color mode, either CMYK or RGB.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Get All Opened Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will retrieve a list of opened Illustrator documents, and pass them as output to the next action in the workflow.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Get Front Illustrator Document

Description: This action will locate the front opened Illustrator document, and pass it as output to the next action in the workflow.

Input: com.automatedworkflows.illustrator.document-object

Output: com.automatedworkflows.illustrator.document-object

Get Names of Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will retrieve the names of the Illustrator documents passed as input. If no documents are received as input, or input is ignored, then the action will attempt to retrieve the name of the frontmost opened Illustrator document. Once retrieved, the names will be passed as output to the next action in the workflow (any action that accepts text as input) for further processing.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: The names of the Illustrator documents.

Get Paths of Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will retrieve the file paths of the Illustrator documents passed as input. If no documents are received as input, or input is ignored, then the action will attempt to retrieve the file path of the frontmost opened Illustrator document. Once retrieved, the file paths will be passed as output to the next action in the workflow (any action that accepts files/folders as input) for further processing.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: The file paths of the Illustrator documents.

Make New Ellipse in Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will create an ellipse at the specified position in the Illustrator documents passed as input. If no Illustrator documents are passed as input, or if input is ignored, then this action will attempt to process the frontmost opened Illustrator document.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Make New Line in Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will create a line at the specified position in the Illustrator documents passed as input. If no Illustrator documents are passed as input, or if input is ignored, then this action will attempt to process the frontmost opened Illustrator document.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Make New Rectangle in Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will create a rectangle at the specified position in the Illustrator documents passed as input. If no Illustrator documents are passed as input, or if input is ignored, then this action will attempt to process the frontmost opened Illustrator document.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

New Illustrator Document

Description: This action will create a new document in Illustrator.

Input: N/A

Output: Opened Illustrator documents

Open Documents in Illustrator

Description: This action will open documents in Illustrator.

Input: Files/Folders

Output: Opened Illustrator documents

Place Images in Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will place the image files passed as input into the frontmost opened Illustrator document, or into all opened Illustrator documents.

Input: Image files.

Output: com.automatedworkflows.illustrator.document-object

Place Text in Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will place text received as input into specified text boxes in the frontmost opened Illustrator document, or into all opened Illustrator documents.

Input: Text

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Print Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will print the Illustrator documents passed as input to the default printer, using a specified print preset. If no documents are passed as input, or if input is ignored, then this action will attempt to process the frontmost opened Illustrator document.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Save Illustrator Documents

Description: This action will save Illustrator documents to an output folder in Adobe Illustrator format, using a specified name. If necessary, a unique suffix will be automatically appended to the saved document name so that existing files with the same name are not overwritten.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Saved document paths or opened Illustrator documents.

Save Illustrator Documents as EPS

Description: This action will save Illustrator documents to an output folder in EPS format, using a specified name. If necessary, a unique suffix will be automatically appended to the saved document name so that existing files with the same name are not overwritten.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Saved EPS file paths or opened Illustrator documents.

Save Illustrator Documents as PDF

Description: This action will save Illustrator documents to an output folder in PDF format, using a specified name. If necessary, a unique suffix will be automatically appended to the saved document name so that existing files with the same name are not overwritten.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Saved PDF file paths or opened Illustrator documents.

Set Ruler Origin of Documents

Description: This action will set the ruler origin (the left, bottom corner) of the Illustrator documents passed as input to a specified position. If no documents are received as input, or input is ignored, then the action will attempt to reset the ruler origin of the frontmost opened Illustrator document.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: Opened Illustrator documents.

Trigger Illustrator Action

Description: This action will trigger a specified Illustrator action.

Input: Opened Illustrator documents.

Output: com.automatedworkflows.illustrator.document-object

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