Illustrator CS3 - Export all layers to Individual jpgs

Hi everyone
Is there a way to Export all layers (within Illustrator) to Individual jpgs/png/emf?
e.g.
Say I have 50 layers and I want each layer to be a different .jpg file, I don't want to have to export each layer one at a time.
I know you can do this in Photoshop CS3
Is there is a script for this?
Thanks

As for .jpg and .png, you can do that by using the Save for Web command, assuming you are talking about main layers.
Other formats require scripting and I believe there are a couple of sample scripts in the Adobe Studio Exchange.

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