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1. Re: Object selection across layers
Mike Gondek2 Oct 14, 2013 2:37 PM (in response to Paulyo)You lost me, maybe you could simplify your question, seems like you are asking for more than one type of selection.
Select >> same >> fill color for the dashes, then option lasso tool to deslect what is not int eh black.
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2. Re: Object selection across layers
Paulyo Oct 14, 2013 2:54 PM (in response to Mike Gondek2)Thanks Mike. You're right. Let me try again. I have a scanned page that is a layer. The objects from the scan I want to be deleted are objects that are just a dashed stroke version of the background solid stroke. They were part of the printed product as reference for someone to draw on aware of content that would be added later and also be easy to remove as post for live trace. I will be using whatever method will work through Javascript, so I won't be able to have subjective interactions like using the Lasso tool.
The fill colors vary and are not responding to the 'same' selection options...like not at all, which is a first for me, but I don't deal with scans much. I do have to keep non-black/non-gray colors perfectly, though. So I was hoping there is a way to use color palette ranges to isolate the objects I don't want, on the layer, and delete them. I'm going to try to mess with the copier's settings, too. Maybe isolating black at the scan to get it more rich and more uniform for Illustrator's existing tools.
Figured I would have to write something myself, but curious if there is already a content-aware selection script that does this.








