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Jump ahead to the [[#List of available scripts]]
# Intorducing Excalidraw Automate Script Engine
Script Engine scripts are installed in the `Downloaded` subfolder of the `Excalidraw Automate script folder` specified in plugin settings.
In the `Command Palette` installed scripts are prefixed with `Downloaded/`, thus you can always know if you are executing a local script of your own, or one that you have downloaded from GitHub.
## Attention developers and hobby hackers
If you want to modify scripts, I recommend moving them to the `Excalidraw Automate script folder` or a different subfolder under the script folder. Scripts in the `Downloaded` folder will be overwritten when you click the `Update this script` button. Note also, that at this time, I do not check if the script file has been updated on GitHub, thus the `Update this script` button is always visible once you have installed a script, not only when an update is availble (hope to build this feature in the future).
I would love to include your contribution in the script library. If you have a script of your own that you would like to share with the community, please open a [PR](https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/pulls) on GitHub. Be sure to include the following in your pull request
- The [script file](https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/tree/master/ea-scripts) with a self explanetory name. The name of the file will be the name of the script in the Command Palette.
- An [image](https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/tree/master/images) explaining the scripts purpose. Remember a picture speaks thousand words!
- An update to this file [ea-scripts/index.md](https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/blob/master/ea-scripts/index.md)
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# List of available scripts
- [[#Add Connector Point]]
- [[#Add Link and Open Page]]
- [[#Add Next Step in Process]]
- [[#Box Each Selected Groups]]
- [[#Box Selected Elements]]
- [[#Change shape of selected elements]]
- [[#Connect elements]]
- [[#Convert selected text elements to sticky notes]]
- [[#Convert text to link with folder and alias]]
- [[#Copy Selected Element Styles to Global]]
- [[#Create new markdown file and embed into active drawing]]
- [[#Darken background color]]
- [[#Elbow connectors]]
- [[#Expand rectangles horizontally keep text centered]]
- [[#Expand rectangles horizontally]]
- [[#Expand rectangles vertically keep text centered]]
- [[#Expand rectangles vertically]]
- [[#Fixed spacing]]
- [[#Fixed vertical distance]]
- [[#Lighten background color]]
- [[#Modify background color opacity]]
- [[#Normalize Selected Arrows]]
- [[#OCR - Optical Character Recognition]]
- [[#Reverse arrows]]
- [[#Set Dimensions]]
- [[#Set Font Family]]
- [[#Set Grid]]
- [[#Set Link Alias]]
- [[#Set Stroke Width of Selected Elements]]
- [[#Set Text Alignment]]
- [[#Split text by lines]]
- [[#Transfer TextElements to Excalidraw markdown metadata]]
- [[#Zoom to Fit Selected Elements]]
## Add Connector Point
```excalidraw-script-install
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/master/ea-scripts/Add%20Connector%20Point.md
```
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will add a small circle to the top left of each text element in the selection and add the text and the "connector point" to a group. You can use the connector points to link text elements with an arrow (in for example a Wardley Map). |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Prompt for a file in the vault. Add a link above or below (based on settings) the selected element, to the selected file. If no file is selected then the script creates a new file following the default filename defined for excalidraw embeds. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will prompt you for the title of the process step, then will create a stick note with the text. If an element is selected then the script will connect this new step with an arrow to the previous step (the selected element). If no element is selected, then the script assumes this is the first step in the process and will only output the sticky note with the text that was entered. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will add encapsulating boxes around each of the currently selected groups in Excalidraw. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will add an encapsulating box around the currently selected elements in Excalidraw. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The script allows you to change the shape of selected Rectangles, Diamonds and Ellipses. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will connect two objects with an arrow. If either of the objects are a set of grouped elements (e.g. a text element grouped with an encapsulating rectangle), the script will identify these groups, and connect the arrow to the largest object in the group (assuming you want to connect the arrow to the box around the text element). |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Converts selected plain text elements to sticky notes with transparent background and transparent stroke color (default setting, can be changed in plugin settings). Essentially converts text element into a wrappable format. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Converts text elements to links pointing to a file in a selected folder and with the alias set as the original text. The script will prompt the user to select an existing folder from the vault.original text - [[selected folder/original text|original text]] |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will copy styles of any selected element into Excalidraw's global styles. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The script will prompt you for a filename, then create a new markdown document with the file name provided, open the new markdown document in an adjacent pane, and embed the markdown document into the active Excalidraw drawing. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script darkens the background color of the selected element by 2% at a time. You can use this script several times until you are satisfied. It is recommended to set a shortcut key for this script so that you can quickly try to DARKEN and LIGHTEN the color effect. In contrast to the `Modify background color opacity` script, the advantage is that the background color of the element is not affected by the canvas color, and the color value does not appear in a strange rgba() form. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script converts the selected connectors to elbows. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script expands the width of the selected rectangles until they are all the same width and keep the text centered. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script expands the width of the selected rectangles until they are all the same width. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script expands the height of the selected rectangles until they are all the same height and keep the text centered. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script expands the height of the selected rectangles until they are all the same height. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The script arranges the selected elements horizontally with a fixed spacing. When we create an architecture diagram or mind map, we often need to arrange a large number of elements in a fixed spacing. `Fixed spacing` and `Fixed vertical Distance` scripts can save us a lot of time. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The script arranges the selected elements vertically with a fixed spacing. When we create an architecture diagram or mind map, we often need to arrange a large number of elements in a fixed spacing. `Fixed spacing` and `Fixed vertical Distance` scripts can save us a lot of time. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script lightens the background color of the selected element by 2% at a time. You can use this script several times until you are satisfied. It is recommended to set a shortcut key for this script so that you can quickly try to DARKEN and LIGHTEN the color effect.In contrast to the `Modify background color opacity` script, the advantage is that the background color of the element is not affected by the canvas color, and the color value does not appear in a strange rgba() form. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script changes the opacity of the background color of the selected boxes. The default background color in Excalidraw is so dark that the text is hard to read. You can lighten the color a bit by setting transparency. And you can tweak the transparency over and over again until you're happy with it. Although excalidraw has the opacity option in its native property Settings, it also changes the transparency of the border. Use this script to change only the opacity of the background color without affecting the border. |
| Author | @1-2-3 |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will reset the start and end positions of the selected arrows. The arrow will point to the center of the connected box and will have a gap of 8px from the box. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | REQUIRES EXCALIDRAW 1.5.15 The script will 1) send the selected image file to [taskbone.com](https://taskbone.com) to exctract the text from the image, and 2) will add the text to your drawing as a text element. ⚠ Note that you will need to manually paste your token into the script after the first run! ⚠  |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Reverse the direction of **arrows** within the scope of selected elements. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Currently there is no way to specify the exact location and size of objects in Excalidraw. You can bridge this gap with the following simple script. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Sets font family of the text block (Virgil, Helvetica, Cascadia). Useful if you want to set a keyboard shortcut for selecting font family. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The default grid size in Excalidraw is 20. Currently there is no way to change the grid size via the user interface. This script offers a way to bridge this gap. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Iterates all of the links in the selected TextElements and prompts the user to set or modify the alias for each link found. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | This script will set the stroke width of selected elements. This is helpful, for example, when you scale freedraw sketches and want to reduce or increase their line width. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Sets text alignment of text block (cetner, right, left). Useful if you want to set a keyboard shortcut for selecting text alignment. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Split lines of text into separate text elements for easier reorganization |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | The script will delete the selected text elements from the canvas and will copy the text from these text elements into the Excalidraw markdown file as metadata. This means, that the text will no longer be visible in the drawing, however you will be able to search for the text in Obsidian and find the drawing containing this image. |
| Author | @zsviczian |
| Source | File on GitHub |
| Description | Similar to Excalidraw standard SHIFT+2 feature: Zoom to fit selected elements, but with the ability to zoom to 1000%. Inspiration: [#272](https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin/issues/272) |