ai-embedder

AI Link Embedder

Introduction

This abomination of a code was created to solve my fiancé issue with migrating Adobe Illustrator files to different machine. It comes with absolutely no guarantee, but it seems to work. Good luck.

Requirements

Running this script requires:

• Windows OS (macOS is not supported for now)
• Adobe Illustrator installed

Run

Usage:

usage: AI Link Embedder [-h] [-r] [-o] [-d DEST] [-p PREFIX] [-s SUFFIX]
                        dictionary

This script takes .ai files and save them with linked files embedded

positional arguments:
  dictionary            Directory with input .ai files

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -r, --recursive       Scan for .ai files recursively
  -o, --override        Override resulting .ai is it exists
  -d DEST, --dest DEST  Directory where resulting .ai files will be saved to
  -p PREFIX, --prefix PREFIX
  -s SUFFIX, --suffix SUFFIX

Example:

python -m ai_embedder