Skip navigation

Illustrator

bornmodern Calculating status...

Currently Being Moderated

action set that selects raster images.

Mar 8, 2013 9:47 AM

Tags: #illustrator #cs5 #help #actionscript #raster

I would like to automate an action set that selects a raster image (linked file) that has been grouped with vector art and then converts that selected raster image into a vector (live trace)

517 Views 11 Replies Latest reply: bornmodern, Mar 9, 2013 6:56 AM

Replies

Currently Being Moderated

1. Mylenium,

Mar 8, 2013 10:45 AM in reply to bornmodern

Report

You will require scripts for that. Ask in the scripting forum.

Mylenium

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

2. Kurt Gold,

Mar 8, 2013 10:59 AM in reply to bornmodern

Report

One could think about an action, but one would have to get much more information about how the file(s) are structured.

Also, which version of Illustrator are you using?

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

3. bornmodern,

Mar 8, 2013 12:08 PM in reply to Kurt Gold

Report

I'm using cs5. As far as format goes I have hundreds of eps files that all have at least one raster bitmap tif which was imported as a linked file and then grouped with vector art. So I will like to run a batch command that will select only that bitmap raster image (because I want to maintain the present vector art in the file) and convert that bitmapt tif to vector- and save the file which will hopfully all be in vector format.

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

4. bornmodern,

Mar 8, 2013 12:11 PM in reply to Mylenium

Report

thank you, I'm new here can you point me to that scripting forum?

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

5. CarlosCanto,

Mar 8, 2013 3:43 PM in reply to bornmodern

Report

this script selects all linked images in the current document, just note that if you record running a script, it will not survive after you close illustrator, you'll have to re-record that step.

var idoc = app.activeDocument; var imgs = idoc.placedItems; for (i=0; i<imgs.length; i++) imgs[i].selected = true;

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

6. bornmodern,

Mar 8, 2013 5:31 PM in reply to CarlosCanto

Report

Thank you so much CarlosCanto, This should work just fine! I'm very new to this, I've tried running the script but it says undefined is not an object. Any suggestions?

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

7. Cheryl Graham,

Mar 8, 2013 5:58 PM in reply to bornmodern

Report

There's a plug-in that adds choices to the Select>Object menu (Raster Art is one of the choices), so you should be able to incorporate that into an action:

http://rj-graffix.com/software/plugins.html#SelectMenu

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

8. CarlosCanto,

Mar 8, 2013 9:33 PM in reply to bornmodern

Report

hum...I wonder why, this is what I get, it even selects missing links

try it with a new document and a couple of freshly linked images...to start troubleshooting.

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

9. bornmodern,

Mar 9, 2013 6:50 AM in reply to CarlosCanto

Report

Thank you so much for double checking!!

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

10. bornmodern,

Mar 9, 2013 6:52 AM in reply to Cheryl Graham

Report

This is it Cheryl!! This is all I needed, and it works with the action command- took me a couple of trys but it works, Thanks so much for your help.

|
Mark as:
Currently Being Moderated

11. bornmodern,

Mar 9, 2013 6:56 AM in reply to bornmodern

Report

Thanks to everyone for all of your help and quick thinking!

|
Mark as: