Is it possible to write a script for Excel Chart Conversion to an ai file?

I tried to record a script and it didn’t work. I will attempt to explain what I am doing (and why) and maybe you guys can tell me if it can be done or not. We are working with Excel charts and we eventually put them into InDesign for a print magazine. Here are the steps as best as I can translate. We are using Illustrator CS6 Version 16.2.0.
1. Copy Chart from Excel
2. Paste into Illustrator
3. Fit Art Board to Graphic
4. Select All
5. Change Kerning to 0
6. Select the Background
7. Select Same Fill Color
8. Change Color to 5% Black
9. Select the grid lines on the Chart
10. Change the Stroke to 50% Black
11. Save as an AI file
There is also a scenario where there are multiple charts and we would like to make multiple art boards in the same file.
I do this for a few reasons: Remove Rich Black, Adjust Kerning, Eliminate any Font Issues, Easier to Scale, and it chokes our rip because there is no link when they are copied and pasted directly from Excel to InDesign.
Any guidance would be appreciated.

no can do, there's no access to mesh point with scripting, sorry about that.
have you tried Mesh Tormentor? it is free!!!, but I don't know if it will help with your problem
http://www.meshtormentor.com/

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Hi,
I'm brand new to writing FrameScript. I'm looking for example scripts that I can piece together or perhaps you can give me a quote for your cost to write the script for me. Here is a description of basically what needs doing. We have .book files than contain say a cover.fm, multiple chapter.fms, and possibly multiple appendix.fms. (They actually contain more types, but I can expand the script for that.) I don't think here is a consistent way to automatically determine which .fms are of which type, so I was thinking of popping up a dialog box that showed the files in the book and asked the user to identify which files were of which type. This asking could be done all at once, or it could iteratively ask for the first type then run all the processing then ask for the second type, etc, etc.
The processing of each file goes like this:
1) Delete the paragraph and character catalog contents
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3) Remap the old paragraph and character tags to the new ones, preferably based on an internal predefined, hard-coded table, but possibly using the "use a remapping table that is in another .fm file" method. It's just that the latter method requires the user to open two more .fms in addition to the several other template files they'll already (correct?) have to have open.
4) Report to the user all tags that are in their file that are not in the new catalogs
Can you point me to pieces? Write the whole thing? Recommend someone who can?
Thanks,
Dave

Dave, if you haven't yet check it out, do visit the Framescript users group, here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/framescript-users/
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Hi, Trevor
I use change by list as below:
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Hmmm… This one copies all files which have 'flash' (could by x-shockwave-flash) string in mime type to /tmp/flash. Hope it will be helpful.
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Script for export all text in single rtf file?

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Hi hasive, thank you for your responses, thank you very much,
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2nd script, I want to set the first indent to -8 mm, but if the left indent is 0, please set the left indent to >8mm then set the first indent to -8mm;
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no can do, there's no access to mesh point with scripting, sorry about that.
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Of course I am ready to pay.
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Thank You ! You may contact me on [email protected]

Of course I am ready to pay.
(In fact the script has nothing to do in LT itself,
no editing, nothing)
- The script invokes the "File > Render Movie"
feature
- In the next dialog box :
- File's name does not change.
- Where to save ? : in the same folder (so nothing
g chanes here)
- Both additional options are enabled by default in
n the Project's settings
- The script just "clicks" Save. Then LT renders the
e movie.
When it is finished (the rendering may take 2 minutes
or 10 depending of the size of the file), LT opens
the rendered movie in a new window.
- The script invokes "File > Close" to close this
s new window, then
- The script invokes the "File > Close project"
" feature.
- Then LOOP (opens the second file in the folder and
d executes tasks again).
Thank You ! You may contact me on [email protected]
I've sent you an email at the one listed in the post. I've created something that does what you ask. Open file 1, render, close, close project, open file 2, render, close, close project, open file 3, render, close, close project, etc....
Thanks,
Grant

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