Question Scripts in Illustrator

[Blazing_Murph]

Hey Everyone,

I was wondering if anyone was running any helpful scripts with Illustrator. I worked at FastSigns awhile back and remember some pretty helpful scripts they provided for you (i.e. set up banner files with grommets every 2' and end labels). Definitely something I can look into making myself, was just curious if anyone has a link to helpful downloads or if anyone has created any that are super helpful to their production guys that I could look into creating. Thanks

 

[myront]

Not a user of illustrator but here's a list some free scripts I've collected

 

[johnnysigns]

I've got a lot of those too I've collected here and there. I use a crop marks script someone made ages ago that we really like too.

 

[myront]

I've got a lot of those too I've collected here and there. I use a crop marks script someone made ages ago that we really like too.

Yeah, I have a 100 macros for CorelDRAW. I'm more familiar with vbs coding than java. I'm toying around with using Copilot to write scripts. That way I can learn by editing and such.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Yeah, I have a 100 macros for CorelDRAW. I'm more familiar with vbs coding than java. I'm toying around with using Copilot to write scripts. That way I can learn by editing and such.

I guess it's a good thing that those scripts are javascript and not java. Java is incredibly painful to write. Lot of boilerplate. Now, I do prefer my compiled languages (C/C++ (even with them being no bueno with the past presidency here), Nim (atleast can turn off the gc when wanting to) and Zig(sometimes I'll just use that as a build system for the previous languages mentioned)).

Co-Pilot (not a fan of AI, but I digress) does have the advantage of being backed by MS which is behind TS (which transpiles to JS) and from what I heard from web guys that I know, TS support is stellar with Co-Pilot, so it would make sense for it to be good for JS as well. Downside, don't know what the license is of where it's scraping from (could be private repos on Github (another MS product) as well. I venture we are going to get more local inhouse AI in the near future.