This little script made your life a little bit easier if you working with separated text items in Adobe Illustrator. With this script you can search and select text items that contains specific characters or word in their text contents.
This is a script. There's no installation needed for using it.
You can use script by dropping script file (TextSearchSelection.jsx) over Illustrator.
Or select "File" > "Scripts" > "Other Scripts..." and select script file.
It's very simple to use. Just write single or multiple letters and script will search match from all text items in active document.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Word Search | The order of the input characters is a matter. Without it will search from ay position. |
| Match Case | Search input is "Case Sensitive" so you can use lowercase and uppercase characters. |
| Instant Search | It'll instantly search while typing. This could be very slow with many text items, so be careful. |
| Unlock All | By default script will only search from unlocked layers. With this you can open all layers easily. |
| Edges | Show/Hide edges. Same as in "View" > "Hide Edges". |
| Bounding Box | Show/Hide Bounding Boxes. Same as in "View" > "Hide Bounding Box". |
This is old little script that I've done in 2014 for testing purposes. I updated it a while ago because needed it in one project. Maybe it's useful someone Illustrator user out there.
The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Creatide / Sakari Niittymaa