I think there might be one or two things in this collection of Illustrator scripts that I could use in lettering my comics.
I think the Divide Text Frame would be useful when working with sound effects or shouted dialogue.
With this script you can divide multi-line text fields into separate text frame objects, making it easy to separate lists, navigation items, and more.
Speeding up the chopping up of a block of text could come in handy.
Another on that might cut down on some fiddling and CMD-Zs is the Metaball script.
This script will create connecting arcs from shapes you have drawn. Very useful when connecting basic shapes to create more complex shapes for logos, icons and illustrations.
I can see using this to create a more organically shaped balloon, much like the final balloon this week’s The Winchcombe strip.
But I like these scripts. Seeing stuff like this always makes me wish that I had learned how to do this myself when I had more free time.
By the way, I think I got this link from a post on Art Geek Zoo a while back. Check it out.
Links
10 Free and Extremely Useful Illustrator Scripts(vectips.com)
Hi Javen,
I am trying to find out a way to run illustrator in automation. I would appreciate if you could give me some pointers.
The use case is
1. we will have an .ai template file (.ait) with variables defined
2. we can create and xml file with the data & variables using a web page or web server (php)
We would like to invoke the illustrator, give the path of ait, xml file path, and would like to get an .ai out of it. so if it can be run at command prompt or can be initiated using php.
Regards,
Pawan