5 Comments

• Yuli says:

  April 24, 2020 at 12:03 am

  It worked great! I used it for 800+ icons.

  I had a few issues with Illustrator suddenly crashing (and had to process smaller batches of about 100-150) but other than that it performed awesome.

• Michael Daross says:

  October 6, 2020 at 3:02 pm

  Thanks for posting this! I used it as a base and modified it to work a little better for my situation. I found it worked better when it opened each file, processed it, and closed it before moving on, since otherwise Illustrator would try to have hundreds of files open at once. Here’s my version:

  
  
  // Change this to your AI files folder (Be sure to end with a /)
  // var rootFolder = "~/Documents/ha/convert-icon-to-svgdefs/exports/";
  var rootFolder = "~/svg_test/";
  var srcFolder = "svgs/"
  var outputFolder = "converted/"
  
  function getFiles() {
    var path = rootFolder + srcFolder;
    var folder = new Folder(path);
    if (folder.exists) {
      return folder.getFiles("*.svg");
    } else {
      throw("Unable to find folder at " + path);
    }
  }
  
  function saveFile(destination, name, document) {
    var folder = new Folder(destination);
    if (!folder.exists) folder.create();
    var destFile = new File(destination + name);
    var options = new ExportOptionsSVG();
    document.exportFile(destFile, ExportType.SVG, options);
  }
  
  function main() {
    try {
      var files = getFiles();
      for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
        // Open each file
        var file = files[i];
        var document = app.open(file);
        document.activate();
        expandFile();
        saveFile(rootFolder + outputFolder, document.name, document);
        document.close();
      }
    } catch(e) {
      alert(e);
    }
  }
  
  function expandFile() {
    app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");
    // app.executeMenuCommand("Live Outline Stroke");
    app.executeMenuCommand("OffsetPath v22"); // Outline path
    app.executeMenuCommand("Live Pathfinder Merge"); // Outline path
    app.executeMenuCommand("expandStyle");
  }
  
  /*
   * Run script
   */
  main();
  
  

• Mark says:

  October 8, 2020 at 5:53 pm

  This isn’t working. Please help.

• David says:

  October 8, 2020 at 6:54 pm

  Can I get this written for PC? This isn’t working.

• Oscar says:

  July 21, 2022 at 12:43 pm

  For anyone coming across @Michael Daross’s version of the script in 2022: Here’s how you can apply it.

  1. Create a folder on your desktop named “svg-exports” (no quotes).
  2. Inside “svg-exports”, create two folders named “svgs” and “converted”.
  3. Place the SVG files you want to convert inside the “svgs” folder. Better to test with a small number of SVGs like 50-100 files.
  4. Now create a new notepad file and copy/paste the code below. Modify the path for rootFolder to fit your own path. Remember to end the path with a /
  5. Save the Notepad file on Desktop as SVG Outliner.jsx
  6. Open Illustrator and go to Files > Scripts > Other Scripts. Run the SVG Outliner.jsx
  7. Now you can open the Converted folder and watch as the processed files count up.

  “`
  // Change this to your AI files folder (Be sure to end with a /)

  var rootFolder = “/C/Users/YOURNAME/Desktop/svg-exports/”;
  var srcFolder = “svgs/”
  var outputFolder = “converted/”

  function getFiles() {
  var path = rootFolder + srcFolder;
  var folder = new Folder(path);
  if (folder.exists) {
  return folder.getFiles(“*.svg”);
  } else {
  throw(“Unable to find folder at ” + path);
  }
  }

  function saveFile(destination, name, document) {
  var folder = new Folder(destination);
  if (!folder.exists) folder.create();
  var destFile = new File(destination + name);
  var options = new ExportOptionsSVG();
  document.exportFile(destFile, ExportType.SVG, options);
  }

  function main() {
  try {
  var files = getFiles();
  for (var i = 0; i < files.length; i++) {
  // Open each file
  var file = files[i];
  var document = app.open(file);
  document.activate();
  expandFile();
  saveFile(rootFolder + outputFolder, document.name, document);
  document.close();
  }
  } catch(e) {
  alert(e);
  }
  }

  function expandFile() {
  app.executeMenuCommand("selectall");
  // app.executeMenuCommand("Live Outline Stroke");
  app.executeMenuCommand("OffsetPath v22"); // Outline path
  app.executeMenuCommand("Live Pathfinder Merge"); // Outline path
  app.executeMenuCommand("expandStyle");
  }

  /*
  * Run script
  */
  main();

  “`