Comments on: Save Layers as JPGs from Illustrator

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:22:48 +0000

Hi Renee, glad I could help.
writing a PDF script was always my highest goal (you are right it would save even more time) but “export” as PDF is not possible in JS for .ai, only “save as” and that’s a whole different script approach. Since I’m not a coder I never got this…

but here’s what I used to do for workaround: export as JPGs and then make a PDF from those. Doesn’t keep edibility but is sufficient for presentations.

PS: I also switched to Fireworks recently which I find much better for webdesign at least.

~
Marco

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:47:13 +0000

I love your ‘ALWAYS’ feature! Do you have another script like this but for .pdf instead of .jpg? That would be such a life saver. There are other scripts out there but none of them have your handy ‘ALWAYS’ feature.

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:24:04 +0000

cool — makes me happy every time someone finds this!

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:14:40 +0000

Great, no messing about – does just what you said, F**$^%G BINGO!
Save me a right load of messing about, cheers man – appreciated.

By: mara

mara — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:28:42 +0000

Is a cropping mask the same as a clipping mask? I’m not sure how to go about creating that layer. Any help is greatly appreciated!

By: jeff

jeff — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:07:14 +0000

i try do it this way but i cant get the cropping mask done
is there a way we can include the script to save into artboard size?

By: joe

joe — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 16:01:26 +0000

Millions of thanks. working here for a german sports company as a production artist and I always have files with many many layers and I always have to send out lowres files for approval…
Thanks to you and the author Niels Bosma!!
VIELEN DANK!

By: Marco

Marco — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:22:36 +0000

anything you want to show up on all JPG’s needs to be on a visible layer called “ALWAYS”. I usually have two of those master layers, one as the top-most, and one on the bottom for things to show up on top and below the layers I want to export.
hope that helps…

By: chrissy

chrissy — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:21:20 +0000

Hi. I’m getting the layers to split out but I want the master background, slug and some info that applies to each layer on all layers. How do I achieve this? Thanks a million!

By: ymo

ymo — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:45:19 +0000

Great script thanks!
Making the ALWAYS layer a white background helped me saving the jpg(s) to the artboard rather than tight around artwork itself.

By: Ewan

Ewan — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:03:38 +0000

ha ah wooo ha! thanks your a fucking star.
i dont know how much time iv spent manually exporting. and i always new there must be a easier way.
Thank you very much.
it worked a treat