A better Asset Library

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
• 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?
• Hard to leverage your existing assets already setup 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, 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, color lists in fixed positions.

Features

Choose t o 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 for having to setup individual files
• Quick Search
• Save selected artwork as a new asset

Individual Folder Settings

• Change the display Name
• Choose files 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
  • Center on artboard
  • Set position, align to the artboard, and move Dx and Dy. Perfect for approval forms adding in key elements at fixed positions
• Split the imported artwork vertically or horizontally to fit to the artboard
• Add Notes