Run Illustrator script on multiple files?

Question

Is there a way to make an Illustrator script run over all files in a certain folder and perform operations on these?I am using CS5 on mac.

Answer 1

function your_script() {

// copy script here or include the jsx file:

# include '~/Desktop/script/your_script.jsx'

}

function main() {

var folder = Folder.selectDialog('Please, select the folder');

if (!(folder instanceof Folder)) return;

var files = folder.getFiles('*.ai');

if (files.length == 0) {

alert('Folder doesn\'t content AI files');

return;

}

var i = files.length;

while (i--) {

var doc = app.open(files[i]);

your_script(); // <------- here your script is running

doc.save();

doc.close();

}

alert(files.length + ' files were processed');

}

main();