Script to remove ICC profile in batch

Question

Hi
I have about 600 illustrator AI files (done in CS4) that re essentially black and white line drawings. But they are around 3-4meg each in size. Recent use of the tools has highlighted that there is a lot of unused data in these files of which the most significant part being the ICC profile.Whatever solution is provided I need to be able to run it on mass on all the files without me manually having to open each file and re-save?
Is there a way to be able to run a batch command on all these files and essentially remove the ICC profile from each?

Answer 1

Here's a modified version of the Save As AI14 from the AI sample files. It will resave all the files without an embedded profile.
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SaveAsAI14.jsx
DESCRIPTION
This sample gets files specified by the user from the
selected folder and batch processes them and saves them
as PDFs in the user desired destination with the same
file name.
// Main Code [Execution of script begins here]
// uncomment to suppress Illustrator warning dialogs
// app.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevel.DONTDISPLAYALERTS;
var destFolder, sourceFolder, files, fileType, sourceDoc, targetFile, illustratorSaveOpts;
// Select the source folder.
sourceFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder with Illustrator files you want to convert to AI', '~' );
// If a valid folder is selected
if ( sourceFolder != null )
    files = new Array();
    fileType = prompt( 'Select type of Illustrator files to you want to process. Eg: *.ai', ' ' );
    // Get all files matching the pattern
    files = sourceFolder.getFiles( fileType );
    if ( files.length > 0 )
        // Get the destination to save the files
        destFolder = Folder.selectDialog( 'Select the folder where you want to save the converted AI files.', '~' );
        for ( i = 0; i < files.length; i++ )
            var optRef = new OpenOptions();
            optRef.updateLegacyText = true;
            sourceDoc = app.open(files[i], DocumentColorSpace.CMYK, optRef); // returns the document object
            // Call function getNewName to get the name and file to save the ai
            targetFile = getNewName();
            // Call function getIllustratorOptions get the illustratorSaveOptions for the files
            illustratorSaveOpts = getIllustratorOptions( );
            // Save as AI
            sourceDoc.saveAs( targetFile, illustratorSaveOpts );
            sourceDoc.close();
        alert( 'Files are saved as AI in ' + destFolder );
    else
        alert( 'No matching files found' );
getNewName: Function to get the new file name. The primary
name is the same as the source file.
function getNewName()
    var ext, docName, newName, saveInFile, docName;
    docName = sourceDoc.name;
    ext = '.ai'; // new extension for AI file
    newName = "";
    for ( var i = 0 ; docName[i] != "." ; i++ )
        newName += docName[i];
    newName += ext; // full AI name of the file
    // Create a file object to save the ai file
    saveInFile = new File( destFolder + '/' + newName );
    return saveInFile;
getIllustratorOptions: Function to set the AI saving options of the
files using the illustratorSaveOptions object.
function getIllustratorOptions()
    // Create the PDFSaveOptions object to set the AI options
    var illustratorSaveOpts = new IllustratorSaveOptions();
    // Setting IllustratorSaveOptions properties.
    illustratorSaveOpts.embedLinkedFiles = true;
    illustratorSaveOpts.fontSubsetThreshold = 0.0
    illustratorSaveOpts.pdfCompatible = true
    illustratorSaveOpts.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR14
    illustratorSaveOpts.embedICCProfile = false
    return illustratorSaveOpts;
Clip the above. Paste it into an ESTK window and save with a .jsx extension. Should do what you want.