: Illustrator scripting: place image file if it has same name of illustrator file I'm -slowly- learning how to code using JavaScript in Illustrator, and I'm trying to write a script that automatically

@Heady304

It came out I wasn't using the most important function to place an item in the canvas :)
here I copy the corrected version of the script (for sure it can be implemented, but right now is already working as a charm)

doc = app.activeDocument;

//images are in this folder -yes, you need double "" for some reason I still don't know-
var dirImages = new Folder("C:FolderWithImages");
var imagesList = dirImages.getFiles();

var itemToPlace = {};

for (var i = 0; i < imagesList.length; i++) {

var imgName = imagesList[i].name;
var documentName = doc.name;

//compare image filename to current document name (both without extensions)

var imgNameNoExt = imgName.slice(0, imgName.indexOf("."));
var docuNameNoExt = documentName.slice(0, documentName.indexOf("."));

// check identical names
if( imgNameNoExt == docuNameNoExt ) {


// this I was missing!!!!!!!!!!!!
var itemToPlace = doc.placedItems.add();

itemToPlace.file = imagesList[i];
itemToPlace.layer = doc.currentLayer;
itemToPlace.top = doc.height;
itemToPlace.left = 0;

}
}


Thaks again Joonas for helping me out on this, without your advices I wouldn't have had the strenght to dig more into this and make it work!!

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@Ogunnowo857

Your dirImages path has one extra backslash. Should probably be: C:FolderWithImages?

I tend to just throw alerts in places to figure out where things are going wrong. You might want to try sticking alert( dirImages.error ); somewhere after it to see if that says there's an error in your path.

Also:


itemToPlace variable doesn't contain an object.


Change it to var itemToPlace = {};

In itemToPlace.top, you are referencing myDocument, which doesn't exist in this code.


It should probably be itemToPlace.top = doc.height;

This one isn't an error, but a missed opportunity. In variable documentName, you are using activeDocument.name, when you could be using doc.name.

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