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Filter page items by property in Javascript

Aug 9, 2012 8:31 PM

Tags: #javascript #illustrator_pageitems

What is the Javascript equivalent to this AppleScript?

set xxx to every page item whose note = "John"

After looking at some of the tutorials, I pieced this together. Is there a better way of doing this? With 30,000 path items it took over a minute to execute...

docRef = app.activeDocument;

var pathLength = docRef.pathItems.length;

docRef.pathItems[0].note;

var hitList = []

for (i = 0; i<pathLength; i++)

{

if (docRef.pathItems[i].note= "John")

{

hitList.push(i)

}

alert(hitList.length)

487 Views 4 Replies Latest reply: Muppet Mark, Aug 10, 2012 5:38 AM

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1. moluapple,

Aug 9, 2012 10:25 PM in reply to johneday

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No better way I think, but shouldn’t it be if (docRef.pathItems[i].note == "John") ?
And if you only want to get length, there is no need for create an array, just increase the count is OK, maybe a little faster.

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2. CarlosCanto,

Aug 9, 2012 10:39 PM in reply to johneday

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over a minute to process 30,000 items is awsome.

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3. johneday,

Aug 10, 2012 5:20 AM in reply to johneday

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So like this?

docRef = app.activeDocument;

var pathLength = docRef.pathItems.length;

docRef.pathItems[0].note;

var myCount = 0

for (i = 0; i<pathLength; i++)

{
if (docRef.pathItems[i].note== "JD")
{
myCount = myCount + 1

}
}

alert(myCount)

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4. Muppet Mark,

Aug 10, 2012 5:38 AM in reply to johneday

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myCount++ like you did with i

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