Text | Adobe Illustrator Scripts

 Text | Adobe Illustrator Scripts

 

By: Mohamed Abdelghany

Looking to speed up your text editing workflow in Adobe Illustrator? Native tools don't always cut it when you need to align mixed fonts to a baseline, generate number sequences, or multi-edit several text frames at once. Below is a collection of custom .jsx scripts built to solve these exact problems. Let's dive into the tools!

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Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator [Version]\Presets\en_US\Scripts\

 01. AlignTextBaseline.jsx

Allows point texts to be vertically aligned based on the baseline of its font, not its bounds. The native Align panel is tied either to the bounding box of the point text or to the curves via Align to Glyph Bounds, which does not give a consistent result for mixed fonts and sizes.

02. InsertText.jsx

For comparison, the standard Edit → Find and Replace… function searches for character matches in text. InsertText, however, works with character index positions—even if the content of the text frames differs. Supports various insertion modes: fixed positions, every N characters, odd/even positions.

Examples of bulk insertion tasks

• Indexes, SKUs, numbers: A123 → SKU-A123
• Price tags: 1999 → $1,999
• Phone numbers: +73700957369 → +7 370 095 73 69
• Date/time separators: 11072025 → 11/07/2025
• Prefix/suffix additions: 150 → 150 cm

03. MakeNumbersSequence.jsx

Fills a range of selected text items with numbers incremented based on the input data. Can only replace numbers or {%N} placeholder within the selected text objects.

04. MultiEditText.jsx

Multi-editing of selected text frames. The script allows you to enter the same text, replace the current text frame content or add the entered text to the current one.

• Keep Para Format - keep the appearance of paragraphs. The amount of text affects performance. Preview will be disabled
• Edit Separately - edit contents of frames separately, contents are separated by @@@@ symbols.
• List by XY - sort the order of texts by their position, otherwise they will be displayed in order in layers
• Reverse Apply - replace contents in reverse order

Tip

If you want to change the size of the text area, open the script file with a text editor and change the CFG width: 300 and height: 210 to another value. The key to displaying different content is ph: '<text>' and the text divider divider: '\n@@@@@\n', where \n is a line break. softBreak: '@#' — soft line break char.

For a line break (new paragraph), use Ctrl + Enter on a PC or Enter on Mac OS. To insert a soft line break chat (no paragraph indent), press Shift + Enter.

05. ReplaceFormattedText.jsx

Pasting text from the clipboard without formatting, preserving the paragraph styles of the original text. The style is saved from the first character of each paragraph.

06. TextBlock.jsx

Creates a block of selected text layers with specified width and spacing. The order of the layers in the block corresponds to the order of the original layers on the Y-axis. Layers are grouped together. Supported units: px, pt, in, mm, cm, m, ft, and yd.