: Any program to create/edit Adobe Illustrator xml easily? I've been using Illustrator's Data-Driven Graphics, for one of my projects. But dread using command-line programing to populate all the fields.

@Margaret771

Another resource: joaofaraco.com.br/converter/

Use this tool to convert your Excel data into Adobe Illustrator compatible XML.

You can either paste in your comma separated values (CSV), or simply paste the cells straight from Excel

This converter was created from
Shan Carter's

Mr. Data Converter
.
The option to convert to AiXML was added by
João Faraco
.

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@Chiappetta793

I know this is an old post, but I ran into trouble with this same thing and wrote a short post detailing how to convert an excel file into illustrator xml using an illustrator script (JET_VFTROU). Hopefully people coming to this thread looking for info can find it useful.

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@Sims5801359

Try this site, I think it is exactly what you are looking for (I'm not positive though): shancarter.com/data_converter/

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@Tiffany317

If you have Design Premium, then you also have Dreamweaver, which does a nice job of editing XML, complete with syntax highlighting. Design Standard, iirc (I've not used CS4 in a long time) should also come with the ExtendScript Toolkit, which is mostly thought of as a javascript IDE but also includes XML syntax highlighting (under View > Syntax Highlighting > XML).

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@Murray976

XML is text. Any plain text editor will work. You simply don't want a rich text editor such as word.

You can use Text Edit, the default text application on the Mac OS. But you must go into its preferences and tell it to ignore RTF commands on open and save.

I prefer BBEdit from barebones.com. But that's merely my preference.

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