: How can I output a list of coordinates for a grouped set of primitives in Adobe Illustrator? Say I have a large set of random points or circles in illustrator. I select and group them.

@Jessie844

You can make Illustrator export as SVG code. If it's just a bunch of primitive shapes like circles, the code won't be very scary and will be pretty readable.

Easiest way...


File > Save as, choose SVG. Hit save.
Instead of Okay on the next window, choose 'Show SVG code'


There are loads of resources on SVG out there; though for primitives you can figure out what's what just by looking at it. For example a circle looks like this:

<ellipse fill="#FFFFFF" stroke="#000000" stroke-miterlimit="10" cx="39.336" cy="36.282" rx="39.336" ry="36.283"/>


...where cx and cy are the x and y co-ordinates of the centre of the ellipse (and rx and ry are the x and y radius).

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@Caterina889

Easiest way is via the DrawScript script...

Other than that, you could open the AI file with a text editor and scour the file code for the relative information. I'd stick to the script if it were me though.

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