Can you count the points in Illustrator?

March 14, 2006 8:13 AM

Is there any program or plugin out there to count the number of points in an Adobe Illustrator file?

Not that it's really necisary but I've always wanted some kind of scientific data on my illustrations. Like number of points, colors, time worked on... stuff like that. Does anyone know of anything like this?

posted by Mark5four0 to computers & internet (2 comments total)

Select All, go to Object/Path/Simplify and check the Preview box, it will give you a count of the currently selected points and the after count. Obviously you should cancel out of this, since you don't actually want to simplify.

It's a bit kludgy but it will work.
posted by doctor_negative at 9:12 AM on March 14, 2006

Or alternately, go to Window/Document Info and select Objects from the popup menu on the top right of the window. That would be the non-kludgy way.
posted by doctor_negative at 9:15 AM on March 14, 2006