Adobe Illustrator Layer Renamer + Regexp + Symbols

This script allows you to batch rename layers in Illustrator.

The script used to only works with string replacement. Regular expressions was eventually added.

Plus, for my needs, I added the name of the single symbol from each layer.

I had this Ai structure:

Layer1
----SymbolA
Layer2
----SymbolA
Layer3
----SymbolB

and I wanted to have:

Layer1-SymbolA
----SymbolA
Layer2-SymbolA
----SymbolA
Layer3-SymbolB
----SymbolB

So i tweaked te script to use regex AND to insert the symbol's name at the right place.

Installation

Option 1

Save ai-layer-renamer.jsx in your scripts folder.

• Windows: Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator <version>\Presets\<language>/Scripts
• OS X: /Applications/Adobe Illustrator <version>/Presets/<language>/Scripts

Option 2

Run it from ExtendScript Toolkit.

Development

1. Make sure you have coffeescript installed.
2. Run cake watch from the root of folder.
3. Run cake build to output .jsx file.

Troubleshooting

If you experience issues with the script as some people have, check out this issue for an alternative solution by SheepDomination.