An action that deletes all hidden objects

Question

Hello
In a constant effort to save and place smaller files...I was wondering if there was a way to script illustrator files so that it deletes all the hidden objects.
I end up with so many hiden objects in these files, I am sure that would be a great help, if I could set an action either inside of illustrator or through a script to drag and drop files onto to that would delete the hidden files.
I cannot find any commands on this in the program, so I did not know if it is possible, but I figures I would try.
thanks!
babs

Answer 1

Here's a script that I have to delete hidden layers in a file. It could be reworked to target page items. Remember you can only delete something if it is visible.
--get a sourceFolder that holds the files to process
set sourceFolder to (choose folder with prompt "Choose a folder with files to process:") as text
-- get a list of files of the files to process in the sourceFolder
tell application "Finder" to set workingFiles to (every file of folder sourceFolder) as alias list
repeat with aFile in workingFiles
    tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
        open aFile
        set currentFile to front document
        tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
            set myLayers to every layer of currentFile
            repeat with i from 1 to count of items in myLayers
                set myLayer to item i of myLayers
                set locked of myLayer to false
                if visible of myLayer is true then
                    set visible of myLayer to false
                else if visible of myLayer is false then
                    set visible of myLayer to true
                end if
            end repeat
            delete (every layer of currentFile whose visible is true)
        end tell
        tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
            set visible of (every layer of currentFile) to true
        end tell
        close currentFile with saving
    end tell
end repeat