Script for Selecting Open Paths in Illustrator CS6

[cutarica_john]

I have created this script for selecting open paths in illustrator cs6 as the graffix plugin is not working under CS6.

Just save the following text in /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CS6/Presets/en_US/Scripts/Select Open Paths.js

if (documents.length > 0 && activeDocument.pathItems.length > 0){

 

          var allPaths = activeDocument.pathItems;

          var allPathsCount = allPaths.length;

          var openPathsAreLocked = false;

          var lockedOpenPaths = 0;

          var locked = false;

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

                    allPaths[ i ].selected = false;

 

                    if( ! allPaths[ i ].closed){

 

                              try{

                                        allPaths[ i ].selected = true;

                              } catch (e) {

                                        openPathsAreLocked = true;

                                        lockedOpenPaths++;

                              }

 

                    }

          }

          if (openPathsAreLocked) alert (lockedOpenPaths + " open paths are locked or hidden (or their layer is locked or hidden) and cannot be selected");

}

[WFehr]

How do you do this on a mac? Or maybe I should say, what app should I use to create this? The Text Edit App won't let me save this  file. I can change the extension afterwords but no go.

[Larry G. Schneider]

Copy the above and paste into the text editor of your choice. Force the text to plain text (not RTF; in TextEdit use as below). Save it as above.

[WFehr]

So it needs to be a txt extension, not js?

[WFehr]

Ah, got it. I opened the renamed file in the Javascript Console, pasted your file and renamed it to jsx. Then in the app, I found it under File>Scripts rather than Select>object where former plugins were located.

Thank you.