Faster item copy in Illustrator using scripting
One thing I wish it was better at was making an array of objects based on selection. Here is a script I wrote to automatically do it for you. You can use move and transform but it involves a lot of math and isn’t very fast. This is a more efficient way of doing so.
Illustrator script to clean empty text boxes
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If you’re a neat freak or just simply want to clean up your illustrator files of empty text boxes, here is a super handy script i quick wrote. It goes through all your layers and removes empty text boxes. Enjoy!
Download: cleanEmptyTextBoxes.jsx
how to run:
File > Script > Other Script
if you want it to automatically load into your scripts folder you can place it in: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator [your version of illustrator]/Presets.localized/en_US/Scripts
Here’s the code:
https://gist.github.com/hilukasz/5278585