VectorFirstAid
Clean up vector documents
- Convert outline text back to editable text
- Change text-point alignment
- Reduce file size by eliminating redundant information
- Recover resources from old files
VectorFirstAidConvert outlined text to editable text and automatically re-joins text lines. Requires original exact font to be present on your system — this is not an OCR process, so has the benefit of placement precision.
Fix all with one-click button. Magic-away the clipping mask nightmare when importing PDFs from Word, PowerPoint and all other programs. Straighten imperfect artwork.
Super Smart Remove Points – to ease editing and help reduce file size, including SVG exports. Re-join broken paths typically found in CAD files. Merge broken text lines into paragraphs, typically found with PDF imports.
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The go-to Adobe Illustrator plugin you need to clean up your vector files with just the click of a button. Make your files as good as can be, removing hours of annoying technical niggles that importing artwork brings!
Latest updates include: Combine Text Lines engine has been entirely revamped so that it is more useful than ever. Unoutline Text is pure magic! You'll also find convenient Alignment of Point Text (whilst keeping its position!), options to break text apart and remove text transforms (rotation and shear). So, if you use text you are really going to like this.
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Accurately convert and recombine outlined text to editable text (requires original font to be installed)
New in v3.0.4: specify subsets of fonts to use when Unoutlining Text, making the operation faster
Text Utility Operations; Change point-text alignment, Break Text Apart, Remove Text Transforms
Reveal and instantly fix many technical problems (stray points, unnecessary clip groups, unclosed paths, etc.) in either the selected art or the entire document, with adjustable parameters
Run checkups either manually or automatically as you work, at user-definable times
Automatically re-run check-ups for extra clean vectors
Immediately locate problem areas in a document using the panel "Show" button
Super Smart Removing points from selected paths
Combine multiple point text objects — now supports rotated and/or transformed type and retains kerning, tracking, super- and subscripts, indents, etc.
Rejoin Paths will now rejoin malformed imported paths which appear to be straight, two-anchor segments but actually consist of multiple points, and are possibly closed.
Replacing all missing fonts
All operations are actionable
Add list of default profiles
Remove Stray Points
Remove Unneeded Points
Remove Redundant Points
Remove Empty Text Paths
Remove Unnecessary Clip Groups
Remove Unnecessary Groups
Remove Unnecessary Compound Paths
Remove Unpainted Paths
Remove Duplicate Art (Improved: now ignores styles and stacking order when determining whether two paths are duplicate)
Remove Off-Artboard Art
Remove Unused Symbols
Remove Unused Swatches
Remove Unused Graphic Styles
Remove Unused Artboards
Retract Short Handles
Close Barely-Open Paths
Close Filled Unstroked Paths
Align Close Points
Axis-Align Paths
Adobe Acrobat PDF Files
Adobe Capture
Adobe Illustrator Draw
Adobe InDesign
Affinity Designer
Basic Clean Up
CAD Files
Corel Draw
Excel + Word + PowerPoint
Freehand
Generic EPS
Live Trace (Adobe Illustrator)
Optimized Clean Up
Pages + Keynote + Numbers
QuarkXpress
Reduce File Size
Wacom Bamboo Spark
Note: each default profile may be modified and new user-defined profiles created
Unoutline text
Super Smart Remove points from paths
Rejoin paths which have been broken into segments
Combine point text objects
Replace all missing fonts in the document
Convert to Dynamic Shapes (if VectorScribe 3 is installed)
Change point-text alignment (without the text moving!)
Break Text Apart (Lines, Words or Glyphs)
Remove Text Transforms (rotation and shear)
When a document is opened
After a specific period of time has passed
Whenever you make a certain number of changes to the document
Add as many or as few operations as you need, in any order, and with custom parameters
Manage existing profiles by editing, deleting, and renaming them
Re-run checks after Fix All (optionally auto fix again for user-defined number of cycles)
Adjustable parameters on all operations which involve them
Center the document view when showing issues
Check and fix locked items