Hello,
I am rather new to scripting, but I get the basics of it.
My employer has asked me to look into streamlining the process of upgrading our old illustrator art files to Illustrator CS4. I have been searching, but have not yet found a script that will do quite what we need and I’m running out of time to search.
We have many, many job folders that contain graphics folders within them. These graphics folders may contain any number of different types of graphics files, such as .ai, .eps, .tif, .jpg, .gif, etc.
I need to write a script that will allow me to select a folder containing these graphics files that will find the old illustrator files (both ai and eps), if any, and update them to Illustrator CS4. In some cases, I may need to update legacy text as well. Also, I want the new CS4 file to overwrite the old file. (No need to save a copy or save it elsewhere.)
Important note: not all of the old Illustrator files have file extensions on their names. So, for example, “hippopotamus.ai” is simply “hippopotamus,” and “chalkboard.eps” is simply “chalkboard”. I would like the new file to have the proper file extension (which, of course, would mean any old illustrator file that did not have a file extension before will not be overwritten by the illustrator CS4 file with the file extension, and that’s OK.) Also, these illustrator files may be as old as vs.6 and as new as vs. CS1.
Really appreciate anyone who can help me out on this.
I also need the same script to update all of our .psd files that contain legacy text layers that need to be updated.
Thanks a million!