change path/vector lineweights using a loop

[ti46978409]

Hi,

I am trying to change the lineweight using loops so that vectors in each layer is subsequently thinner by a certain amount. Here is a sample of the code that I am working with. Here, I am prompting the user to input a starting lineweight, and then using that for the first layer, and the subsequent layers are multiplied by a factor of 0.125.

So far, it only iterates it twice (there are more than two layers), but all the lineweights are all same value.

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var vectors = doc.pathItems;

                    while (isNaN(stroke) == true)   {

                        var stroke = Number(prompt(doc.layers.name, "Enter lineweight: "));

                    }

                    for (var j = 0; j < vectors.length; j++)   {

                    vectors.selected = false;

                    vectors.fillColor = replaceColor;

                    vectors.strokeWidth = stroke * 0.125;

                    }

[Ray Yorkshire]

Maybe try asking in  the scripting forum

illustrator-scripting

[CarlosCanto]

you're assigning the same value to all pathItems,

    stroke * 0.125

you have to decrease the value of stroke on each pass.

    stroke -= 0.125 (same as stroke = stroke - 0.125)

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var vectors = doc.pathItems;
var stroke = undefined;
while (isNaN(stroke) == true) {
    var stroke = Number(prompt('Prompt', "Enter lineweight: "));
}
vectors[0].strokeWidth = stroke; // starting line weight
for (var j = 1; j < vectors.length; j++) {
    //vectors.selected = false;
    //vectors.fillColor = replaceColor;
    vectors.strokeWidth = stroke -= 0.125; // 2nd path to last, reduce weight by 0.125
}

[ti46978409]

Hi,

I nested this under another loop (for layers), and was hoping one lineweight would apply to all the vectors (pathitems) in each of the layers. What I set up here only loops through few vectors in the first layer:

#target illustrator

function main()   {

    if (app.documents.length > 0)   {

    var doc = app.activeDocument; 

    var vectors = doc.pathItems; 

    var stroke = undefined; 

    var totallayers = doc.layers.length;

    while (isNaN(stroke) == true) { 

        var stroke = Number(prompt('Prompt', "Enter lineweight: ")); 

    } 

    for (var i = 0; i < totallayers; i++)   {

        var currentLayer = doc.layers;

        while (isNaN(stroke) == true)   {

            stroke = Number(prompt('Prompt', "Enter lineweight: "));

        }

        // Sets initial layer's lineweight to the entered stroke

        doc.layers[0].vectors.strokeWidth = stroke; // starting line weight

        for (var j = 0; j < vectors.length; j++)   {

        doc.layers[0].vectors.strokeWidth = stroke;

        currentLayer.vectors.strokeWidth = stroke*=0.125;

        }

    }

    }

}

[Silly-V]

What I set up here only loops through few vectors in the first layer:

        doc.layers[0].vectors.strokeWidth = stroke;

        currentLayer.vectors.strokeWidth = stroke*=0.125;

You always are going to doc.layers[0].vectors, maybe this needs to be a removed line.

[ti46978409]

I removed it but didn't change anything. Here is what I have now:

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

#target illustrator

function main()   {

    if (app.documents.length > 0)   {

    var doc = app.activeDocument; 

    var vectors = doc.pathItems; 

    var stroke = undefined; 

    var totallayers = doc.layers.length;

    while (isNaN(stroke) == true) {

        stroke = Number(prompt('Prompt', "Enter lineweight: ")); 

    } 

        vectors[0].strokeWidth = stroke;

        for (var i = 0; i < totallayers; i++)   {

            for (var j = 0; j < vectors.length; j++)   {

            vectors.strokeWidth = stroke;

            }

            stroke -= 0.125;

        }

    }

}

main();

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

[Silly-V]

Well what is your vectors,  where does it come from, where should it come from, and where should that come from?

Right now your vectors is doc.Path items, so it's doing a loop for every layer on all the document's pathItems, and changes all of them to the new stroke variable.

To fix it, you'll have to change the vectors to something like totalLayers.pathItems.

[ti46978409]

Thanks! It worked

[ti46978409 · Accepted solution]

Here is what I ended up doing:

#target illustrator

function main()   {

    if (app.documents.length > 0)   {

    var doc = app.activeDocument; 

    var stroke = undefined;

    var vectors = undefined;

    var totalLayers = doc.layers.length;

    while (isNaN(stroke) == true) {

        stroke = Number(prompt('Enter a numeric lineweight:', "1")); 

    }

        for (var i = 0; i < totalLayers; i++)   {

vectors = doc.layers.pathItems;vectors = doc.layers.pathItems;

for (var j = 0; j < vectors.length; j++)   {

vectors.strokeWidth = stroke;

}

        stroke *= 0.500;

        }

    }

}

main();