"This new powerscript Asset Library is brilliant.- This is how Adobe should of done it". ~ Darren

Adobe Illustrator comes with a standard Library that stores your files online. While this is useful, there are some issues:

• Assets don't import as fully editable artwork; they are often grouped and clipped and require manual breaking, much like a placed PDF file. So its hard to use these assets
• There is no control of how the files are placed; you can't specify a fixed location or layer
• You have to trust the cloud and use cloud storage. What if the internet is down?
• It is hard to leverage your existing assets already set on shared folders
  

Benefits of PosterScripts Asset Library

• Uses your existing file-based assets
  
• Choose how the artwork is imported, placed, embedded, copied, or opened.
  
• Ai Artwork retains layers and is fully editable, with no ungrouping or unclipping.
• Range of advanced placement and positioning options 
• Choose folders to list, include subfolders or choose multiple different folders
• Quickly open commonly used files
  
• Allows for a modular workflow. Have an approval template you can easily load into the back layer, then position notes, signoffs, warnings, and colour lists in fixed positions.

Features

• Choose to store previews in a local cache or in subfolders (ideal for shared network drives)
• Choose to store settings on your computer or in subfolders, so settings can be for individuals or the whole team, saving everyone from having to set individual files 
  
• Quick Search
• Save selected artwork as a new asset
  
• Individual Folder Settings
• Change the display Name
• Choose file types for just that folder
• Set the default import options for all files in the folder
• Individual Files Settings
• Create previews,
• Open the folder or the file
  
• Hide individual files
• Change the display name
• Choose how to import the file
• Always Ask
• Place
• Embed
• Open
• Copy - For Ai Files copy and paste the contents to your active document, preserving full editing
  
• Copy Source(for Ai Files)
  
• Active artboard only
• Entire Document
• Named Layers - Allows you only to copy over layers with matching names, perfect for copying templates without the generic header/footer
  
• Choose the destination Layer
• Current Layer
• Top Layer
• Bottom Layer
• Named Layer - Will place on a particular layer or create it if it does not exist, perfect for keeping templates on one layer
• Preserve Layers  (Ai Files only)
  
• Specify the positron
• Preserve the source position
• Centre on artboard
• Set position, align to the artboard, and move Dx and Dy. Perfect for approval forms adding in key elements at fixed positions
  
• Notes

Future Planned Features (no ETA)

• Export settings to share with the team
• Different views, Small preview, Large preview, Lists
• Choose custom previews
• Change and replace text on import, for example, change {{date}} to today's date automatically
• Size options
• Additional Layer Options
• Color Library
• Automatically create all previews
• Cache Manager to clean up the cache