Batch replace color without using swatch as source

Question

I've searched these forums and the rest of the web trying to find a method to do this... Actions don't cut it (if Actions were able to record the "replace color" dialoge it would be fine) so I've turned to scripts, but I have almost no knowlege on this.
I checked out this thread:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2588737
and it is very close, except that it assumes that there is a named swatch as the source color - which there isn't.
The script I tried was .JS
I'm trying to have the script run on a bunch of .eps files in a folder:
- Select object which has specified CMYK value (0,7,34,10)
- Replace fill color of the selected object with another CMYK value (5,19,36,0)
- Save over the existing .eps
- Close
- Make coffee (optional)
Also, any books you can recommend for learning this stuff? For a noob.

Answer 1

Muppet Mark wrote:
How simple are you documents as a piece of illustrator artwork. Having a better idea of their contents lets us know how deep the script would need to dig to find the colors you wish to exchange? Just path items? used in text? used to color up placed artwork?
Hey Muppet Mark,
If you have other script for all possible objects with also stroke or not, it should be useless (i beggining this script, your point of view should be interresting , personnaly i'm blocked on GraphItems and other complex Items)
Regards, art.chrome
#target Illustrator
var doc=app.activeDocument;
var couleur= new Array()
///////////////// Function ////////////////////////
var couleurCMYKColor = function (myColour){
     var Couleurs= new Array();
     Couleurs[0]=myColour.fillColor.cyan;
     Couleurs[1]=myColour.fillColor.magenta;
     Couleurs[2]=myColour.fillColor.yellow;
     Couleurs[3]=myColour.fillColor.black;
     alert("CMYK\n"+Couleurs);
return Couleurs;     
var couleurRGBColor = function (myColour){
     var Couleurs= new Array();
     Couleurs[0]=myColour.fillColor.red;
     Couleurs[1]=myColour.fillColor.green;
     Couleurs[2]=myColour.fillColor.blue;
     alert("RGB\n"+Couleurs);
return Couleurs;     
var couleurGrayColor = function (myColour){
     var Couleurs= new Array();
     Couleurs[0]=myColour.fillColor.gray;
     alert("Gray\n"+Couleurs);
return Couleurs;     
var kindColor = function (mekind){
var kind=mekind.fillColor.toString();
     switch (kind){
           case "[CMYKColor]":
           var result=couleurCMYKColor (mekind);
           break;
           case "[GrayColor]":
           var result=couleurGrayColor (mekind);
           break;
           case "[RGBColor]":
           var result=couleurGrayColor (mekind);
           break;
           default:
           alert("This type of Color ("+kind+") wasn't implemented...");
           break;
var type = function (me){
     with (me){
      switch(typename){
           case "CompoundPathItem":
           // do nothing useless
           break;
           case "GraphItem":
           // ARGGG !! blocked
           break;
           case "GroupItem":
           // do nothing useless
           break;
           case "LegacyTextItem":
           break;
           case "MeshItem":
           break;
           case "NonNativeItem":
           break;
           case "PathItem":
           var mekind=me;
               kindColor(mekind);
           //alert (result);
           break;
           case "PlacedItem":
           // do nothing
           break;
           case "PluginItem":
           // procced as a group ?
           break;
           case "RasterItem":
           // do nothing
           break;
           case "SymbolItem":
           // complex.. i don't know
           break;
           case "TextFrame":
           var mekind=me.textRanges[0];
           kindColor(mekind);// the first characters
           break;
           default:
           alert("not implemented...");
           break;
//////////////// End Function /////////////////////////
for (c=doc.pageItems.length-1;c>-1;c--){
       var sel=doc.pageItems[c];
      if (sel.selected){
     alert(c+": "+sel.typename);
      type(sel);
      //alert(doc.selection[c].typename);