Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Productivista Illustrator scripts ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://productivista.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Blog](https://productivista.com/blog/) - [Create a Box Cut with the MockUpinator in seconds](https://productivista.com/create-a-box-cut-with-mockupinator-script-in-seconds/) - The MockUpinator script creates a die-cut line in seconds. It’s easy to use and provides some additional adjustable features, helping you work with packaging efficiently. Please read this post to learn how it works and start saving your time. Note that the created die-cut can only be used as a mock-up and not as a - [Customize the Filename Text Appearance in Your PagesDateName Script (Part 2)](https://productivista.com/customize-text-appearance-in-your-pagesdatename-script-part-2/) - Do you want to learn how to add page numbers, date and name of your document in Adobe Illustrator? Here I introduce you to a script that can do it. Scripting for Adobe Illustrator can open new possibilities and speed up your workflows. In this post, I'll show which part of the PagesDateName script you - [Templates save time and keep consistency throughout project](https://productivista.com/templates-save-time-and-keep-consistency-throughout-project/) - Maximize your Adobe Illustrator efficiency with custom templates. Explore pre-made and customizable options for a smoother workflow. - [Improve your Workflow by recording an Action to run your Custom Script](https://productivista.com/record-an-action-to-run-custom-script/) - Actions can significantly improve your work flow and speed up design process. So today I’ll talk about how to make you custom scripts works as an Action. This is just amazing and I’m sure you will love it. The picture below shows a step by step instruction and you can download it here completely free - [Boost Efficiency: Automate for Growth in Design Business](https://productivista.com/boost-efficiency-automate-for-growth-in-design-business/) - Explore how automation boosts design efficiency, often speeding up tasks tenfold, from hours to seconds. Unlock creativity and growth. - [Manage Page Info in Illustrator Made Easy with FlexPageMaster Script](https://productivista.com/manage-page-info-in-illustrator-made-easy-with-flexpagemaster-script/) - FlexPageMaster script manages and displays page numbers, document names, and dates in Illustrator. Flexible and essential for enhancing your projects. - [Add Page Numbers and Annotations in Adobe Illustrator with PageIndexer script](https://productivista.com/the-ultimate-solution-for-page-numbering-and-annotation-in-adobe-illustrator-with-pageindexer/) - Discover how the PageIndexer script transforms Adobe Illustrator's page numbering & annotation. Speed up your workflow with easy-to-use features & updates. - [How to Add Page Numbers in Adobe Illustrator Across Multiple Artboards](https://productivista.com/how-to-add-page-numbers-in-adobe-illustrator-across-multiple-artboards/) - Add page numbers across multiple artboards in Adobe Illustrator with PageIndexer. Also repeat dates, file names, labels, and other artwork. - [Artificial intelligence vs Photoshop: Quick experiment with upscaling of a product photo](https://productivista.com/artificial-intelligence-vs-photoshop-quick-experiment-with-upscaling-of-a-product-photo/) - There is a big focus in our days on AI: How it works? What can we use it for? My husband, Esben, works with combining chemistry with AI and has his own blog (Danger! Nerdy stuff!). Together we decided to make a little experiment, and test if AI can enlarge a product photo better than - [EAN-13 in Adobe Illustrator with this free script.](https://productivista.com/ean-13-in-adobe-illustrator/) - Generate EAN-13 in Adobe Illustrator by replacing all 13-digit text in your open document with a working barcode. The created barcode will follow the placement, size and rotation of your barcode text. Isn’t it smart and easy?In this blog post, I’ll describe how the EAN-13 barcode script works and cover the known issues. The EAN-13 - [UPC-A barcode in Adobe Illustrator using a script](https://productivista.com/upc-a-barcode-in-adobe-illustrator-using-a-script/) - What about, if you could generate UPC-A (UPC12) in Adobe Illustrator by replacing all 12-digit text in your open document with a working barcode? This free script creates barcodes that will follow the placement, size and rotation of your barcode text. Isn’t it smart and easy?Finally, I found time to write this blog post, where - [Improved ColorList Script for Better Color Charts](https://productivista.com/improved-colorlist-script-for-better-color-charts/) - With the improved ColorList Script, you can easily create color charts in Adobe Illustrator to complement your brand, artwork, or style guide. - [Add Page Numbers, Date and Filename in Adobe Illustrator using a Script (Part 1)](https://productivista.com/add-page-numbers-date-and-filename-in-adobe-illustrator-using-a-script-part-1/) - Do you want to learn how to automatically add page numbers, date and name of your document to your illustration in Adobe Illustrator? Here I can introduce you to a script, that can do it. Scripting for Adobe Illustrator will open new possibilities and speed up your workflows. Adobe Illustrator is not InDesign, but as - [Transform Text into Functional Scripts: The Power of AI Prompts in Adobe Illustrator](https://productivista.com/transform-text-into-functional-scripts-the-power-of-ai-prompts-in-adobe-illustrator/) - Can an ordinary designer working with Adobe Illustrator transform a text into a functional script? This intriguing idea led me, a designer and developer always on the hunt for tools to boost my creative process, to delve into Omata AI for Adobe Illustrator. The plugin is described as: “An experimental plugin that combines the power - [Pharma Packaging Design: Automate it to Ultimate Efficiency](https://productivista.com/pharma-packaging-design-automate-it-to-ultimate-efficiency/) - Discover how automation transforms pharma packaging design, boosting efficiency and reducing errors. Learn from real-life success stories in this blog post. - [ColorList Script: make a list of colors from a selection](https://productivista.com/make-a-list-of-colors-from-your-selection/) - Streamline your Adobe Illustrator projects with the ColorList script, allowing the creation of colour legends from objects easily. - [Artboards in Adobe Illustrator 3: Rearrange artboards](https://productivista.com/artboards-in-adobe-illustrator-3-rearrange-artboards/) - I've previously showed how you can save time by working on duplicated artboards in parallel and how to rename and save artboards with unique names for seperate files. It is also nice to know, how artboards can be rearranged. There are two cases where I often find this feature useful. By tracking artboard up or - [Artboards in Adobe Illustrator 2: Rename and save](https://productivista.com/artboards-in-adobe-illustrator-2-rename-and-save/) - Last time I wrote a bit about how to duplicate and customize artboards for later working in parallel. Usually I don´t rename Arboards, but from time to time I need to save each artboard separately. It can then be useful to give artboards a proper name to avoid confusion. The picture above shows, that when - [Apparel Design Presentation with Smart Automation](https://productivista.com/apparel-design-presentation-with-smart-automation/) - Explore how design process automation can boost creativity and efficiency in the apparel industry, transforming routine tasks into opportunities. - [Unlock Potential: Strategic Automation for Design & Production](https://productivista.com/unlock-potential-strategic-automation-for-design-production/) - Explore automating supplier files and labels in apparel design to streamline production. Discover future steps towards preprint preparation. - [Adjust Date and Page Numbers in your PagesDateName Script (Part 3)](https://productivista.com/adjust-date-and-page-numbers-in-your-pagesdatename-script-part-3/) - Do you want to learn how to add page numbers, date and name of your document in Adobe Illustrator? Here I can introduce you to a script that can do it. Scripting for Adobe Illustrator can open new possibilities and speed up your workflows. In this post I'll show you how to edit Date and - [Change Default Font from Myriad Pro to Your Favourite Font](https://productivista.com/change-default-font-from-myriad-pro-to-your-favourite-font/) - Learn how to easily change the Default Font in Adobe Illustrator from Myriad Pro to any font you choose. - [The Magic of Copy-Paste: PART 2-More tricks and spells](https://productivista.com/the-magic-of-copy-paste-part-2-more-tricks-and-spells/) - In this Productivista blog, I´ll continue the Copy-Paste theme by showing how you can use it together with Duplicated Artboards But before that, I just want to give another quick tip about where it is smart to use the Cut-Paste method. Sometimes it can happen, that you begin to make some changes to an object - [New Document Profiles: Save Your Default Settings](https://productivista.com/new-document-profiles-saves-your-default-settings/) - In this blog post, I want to show how you can overwrite New Document Profiles and save your defaults this way. We may not always be happy about some of Adobe Illustrator's defaults, but mostly we accept them. This is not necessary. We can change some of them, so we adapt them to our needs. - [Function Keys and Action Buttons: Quick Access to Your Scripts.](https://productivista.com/function-keys-and-action-buttons-quick-access-to-your-scripts/) - In this blog post, I describe how to make quick access to your scripts by using function keys, and action buttons. As an example, I use my scripts that add pages, date and file names to your document. You can download these scripts here and read instructions on how you can adjust them to your - [Easy Way to Add Effects to Editable Text Using the Appearance Panel](https://productivista.com/add-gradient-and-effects-to-editable-text-with-appearance-panel/) - In this blog-post, I'll show the easy way to add effects to editable text. By using the Appearance panel you can keep your text editable while still adding effects. It will give you a lot of flexibility to work with it. Many times I’ve been asked to show some Adobe trick again and again - [Margaret O`Rorke: Ceramics Artist, who brings light to life](https://productivista.com/margaret-ororke-ceramics-artist-who-brings-light-to-life/) - Margaret O'Rorke is one of the artists and a person that I really admire. I was lucky to meet and work with Margaret for five month in her studio in Oxford. It was a time with a lot of learning and I got insight into her way of working with material and form. I saw - [No more frustrating LastFinalRealFINAL_5.ai Files](https://productivista.com/version-history-directly-from-illustrator/) - If you save your document in the Creative Cloud, you can track Version History of your file directly from Adobe Illustrator. It's not necessary anymore to save hundreds of versions of the same file. This is a very nice and helpful feature. The Version History works with documents saved in Adobe Creative Cloud. You already - [Why would we want Pantone Connect?](https://productivista.com/why-would-we-want-pantone-connect/) - With this blog post, I'll give an overview of the Pantone Connect extension. The most useful feature of this extension is ability to convert Pantone colors directly in your Adobe application. There are two reasons I thinks it's a good time to write about it. 1. It's Free until 1 of July Due to COVID-19 - [Smart Adobe Illustrator tip: Make a Custom Default Graphic Style](https://productivista.com/make-a-custom-default-graphic-style/) - In this blog post I want to show how to create your own customized Default Graphic Style. This way you can assign the custom style to a path just by pressing D-key. Designers, as well as a lot of other people, prefer visual information. So I have made a one page visual PDF for some - [Process, Global and Spot colors in Adobe Illustrator](https://productivista.com/process-global-and-spot-colors-in-adobe-illustrator/) - Hello again, Here on Productivista I want to make a series of blog posts dedicated to the theme: Changing colors in Adobe Illustrator. First I want to make a brief introduction to the differences between Process, Global and Spot colors. I´m one of these persons, who loves autumn. That´s why I created an autumn inspired - [Simple trick to merge colors in Adobe Illustrator](https://productivista.com/simple-trick-to-merge-colors-in-adobe-illustrator/) - Hi Today I will show you a simple trick about how to merge colors in the Illustrator swatch palette. Usually I use it if I can see, that there are two almost similar colors in my artwork. Sometimes also for other purposes, but more about this later. It really depend of the specific artwork.As a - [Artboards in Adobe Illustrator: Duplicate artboards](https://productivista.com/artboards-in-adobe-illustrator-duplicate-artboards-2/) - The first theme of my blog will be about artboards in Adobe Illustrator. In my work I often need to create variations of the same basic artwork. Therefore I prefer to duplicate artboards, rather than create them from scratch. As an example I'll show how to create variations of a simple hang tag. So - [The Magic of Copy-Paste: PART 1-Simple tricks](https://productivista.com/the-magic-of-copy-paste-part-1-simple-tricks/) - This post in Productivista is about one of my favorite functions in Adobe Illustrator. It is a big time saver, easy to use and works like magic. I love it. Like in many other applications you can Copy your object or text by using the shortcut key "Ctrl/Cmd+C" You can cut your object or text - [The Magic of Copy-Paste: Extension-Paste in Layers](https://productivista.com/the-magic-of-copy-paste-extension-paste-in-layers/) - Hello, I am back from my vacation. My plan was to write a post about Appearance palette, but it will wait a little bit. But for now, I want to make a little extension to my theme about Copy-Paste. By coincidence I was lucky to discover some new feature. And I want to write about - [Appearance panel and its secrets](https://productivista.com/appearance-palette-and-its-secrets/) - Hello and welcome here on Productivista. Today I want to introduce you to the Appearance panel. It's really a lot of fun to work with it and you can be amazed by all the cool things you can do by with it. A good way to understand the Appearance panel, is to see it as - [How to create a seamless pattern (old fashioned way)](https://productivista.com/how-to-create-a-seamless-pattern-old-fashioned-way/) - To my followers, welcome back. In this post I will show how to create a seamless pattern in Adobe Illustrator. Adobe introduced a new Pattern Options Dialog back in Illustrator version CS6. Users of Adobe Illustrator were happy about this new feature and in forums people commented how difficult it was to design patterns before that. ## Pages - [Home](https://productivista.com/) - Packaging workflow automation for design teams. 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