Selection of object names?

Has anyone ever select objects by their group name?

I work with imported graphics, and objects appear in the layer hierarchy HAVE grouped and named according to their object types in the program of First Nations (see attached image). The problem lies in the annotation objects: they are made of different parts for different graphic styles are needed; However, they all come in a single layer and difficult to access for global operations. I need to do different things with different object types (deletion of the POINT, move the LINE and LWPOLYLINE at different layers, etc...). The ability to select individual objects is ok for small sets of data, but you can imagine that it becomes untenable in a hurry.

Two possible solutions, that I considered:

(1) change the output parameters in the source program, such as the objects come into illustrator with different graphics allowing them to be accessed through the tools of ' Select same...» » ; It would work, but a problem for the source program

(2) print the graphics of annotation with their graphical appearance desired pdf rather than import the source file directly in artificial intelligence, then open in artificial intelligence to render the remaining graphics; again, this works, but introduces the inefficiency of the process. In addition, the printing process tends to explode the closed paths requiring more inefficient way tinker in artificial intelligence.

I want to say HAVE to select all objects named 'POINT' or 'LINE' etc. but can't find anything in the documentation or forums on the question of if possible. Has anyone experience this problem? Is there a solution HAVE?

Thanks, I'll post this question in the section script as well.

LayersGroupsNames.jpg

Actions interface includes a control that you can insert into any Action: select an object... This step of the Action can be used to select objects by the content of the text in the note field in the range of attributes (which is fine), but not by the name of the object in the palette layers (which is stupid). Who designs such things?

Anyway...

As the objects you want to select, and maniulate are already named when they are imported, it sounds like a simple solution could be just on each named pageItem Note. You can do it with just a few lines of Javascript:

Start of script

JET_X_SetNoteToName.jsx

var docRef = app.activeDocument;

var docObjects = docRef.pageItems;

for (i = 0; i<>

var currObj = docObjects [i];

currObj.note = currObj.name;

}

End of script

I just tested the script above on CS3, which is all that I have loaded on my laptop on Saturday morning. But it of about as simple as they come and work probably fine in later versions.

  1. Paste this text into a text editor. Save it as a text file named JET_X_SetNoteToName.jsx. Don't forget to include the extension ".jsx.
  2. Open a copy of one of your files.
  3. Open the palette attributes and the layers palette so that you can watch them.
  4. File > Scripts > other Scripts... Navigate to the script file and open it.
  5. Select one of the points of interest. Check that his name (in the layers palette) now appears also in his Note field (in the attributes palette).
  6. Flyout palette menu actions: new Action... Name "Select POINTs".
  7. Flyout palette menu actions: select objects... In the dialog box, type "POINT".
  8. Perform the Action. Objects called 'Point' should be selected.

Create similar Actions for the LINE and LWPOLYLINE.

Now you can develop Actions by adding steps to perform all operations you want to happen to them after SelectObjects stage. (Remove POINTs, changing STROKE weight and the color of the lines, etc. etc.)

If the things you want to do the POINTs, lines and LWPOLYLINEs are always the same for each file, create of the graphic Styles to hold desired appearances (strokes, fills, etc) and name the graphic Styles accordingly. Then include in action to apply the appropriate graphic Styles. You can record your Actions and Graphic Styles for use in other documents or include them in a template file.

So assuming that it is a recurrent need, you can kind of build yourself a "kit" project-specific solution by combining several features semi Automation: Scripting, Actions, Styles, graphics, models.

JET

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