Illustrator-compatible scripts
Run Illustrator-style scripts from the Scripts palette or the File menu. A script can work with the document, the selection, layers, paths, groups, text frames, compound paths and colours.
Automation & MCP
Automation
Illustrator-style scripting, AppleScript and AI-assistant access.
Automate SVG Editor when you want to generate artwork, batch edit documents or control the app from other Mac automation tools.
Bundled demo scripts
Example scripts generate grids, colour wheels, spirals, star bursts and text posters, or recolour artwork. They are useful as templates for your own scripts.
User script library
Create new scripts or add existing .jsx and .js files. User scripts appear in the Scripts palette and File menu.
AppleScript
Control the app from AppleScript, with the standard document commands and a do script command that runs a script on the active document.
Scripted menu commands
Scripts can call menu commands such as the pathfinder operations, so automation uses the same features you reach through the menus.
AI assistants
Connect an AI assistant through MCP and it can draw and edit in the open document. See the setup guide.
Scripts and generated artwork
The script editor can run Illustrator-compatible examples such as Star Burst on the open document.
External control
Turn on external control in Settings to let an AI assistant or AppleScript drive drawing, brushes, gradients, patterns, pathfinder operations, layers, symbols and guides.
