Darty Basics

Darty-Ai is a powerful variable-data Adobe Illustrator extension.

To install, please visit the Installation section.
To get started, read the introductory topics:

Requirements

Hardware - desktop or laptop computer.
Note: large-document processing benefits from powerful hardware to reduce wait times.
Operating System - Windows & macOS.
Adobe Illustrator - versions 28 (2024) and 29 (2025) or later.
Darty-Ai - download it from our installers page.
Optional: Excel - a spreadsheet application to create data with. See Using Excel.

Creation and usage of the specially-formatted spreadsheet header for Darty operations.
See Darty Header.

Learn how to use Darty tags to hook up your art to the data.
See Darty Tags.

The full documentation of Darty methods.
See Darty Methods Guide.

Read about the built-in color libraries included with Darty-Ai.
See Darty Colors.

Learn all about using the Darty-Ai user-interface.
See Darty User-Interface.