Feature request: Option to not modify ai file

[lajoiemedia]

There should be an option that causes ai2html to use the settings file exclusively and not modify the original ai file.

This would be useful especially when batch running ai2html.

[mbloch]

This seems like a good suggestion, I'll look into how best to implement it.

I'm curious, how are you batch running ai2html? I've only run it interactively, via the File > Scripts menu.

[lajoiemedia]

I have a node script which runs through all the AI files in a directory and calls something like this:

const child = require("child_process");
const AI2HTML_SCRIPT = "path/to/ai2html.js";

function doConversion(file) {
  try {
    child.execSync(`osascript -e 'tell application id "com.adobe.illustrator"
        activate
        open POSIX file "${file}" without dialogs
        do javascript file "${AI2HTML_SCRIPT}"
      end tell'`);
  } catch(e) {
    console.error(`Failed to convert ${file}`);
    process.exit(-1)
  }
}

This works only on Mac and was lifted from ai2react-loader from AP's Andrew Milligan (https://github.com/andrewmilligan/ai2react-loader/blob/main/src/index.js)

There's a single config file that sits in the directory with all my AI files. I want that config to determine how all the AI files are converted. Unfortunately, if I make a change to that config file, any files that have already run through the process are going to ignore the settings change (because they now have a block which overrides those settings).

[mbloch]

Sorry this took so long... I added an option named create_settings_block, which can be set to false in an ai2html-config.json file if you want to prevent creation of a text block for settings.

[lajoiemedia]

That's awesome! Thanks for that.