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Reduce To Basic Appearance

The reduce method is for removing all effects and extra strokes and fill from tagged artwork.

To prevent the method being applied to a row, inside the method, leave the tagSearch value blank or set it to "" or use either the generic * property and set the cell value to false or the generic skip property and set the cell value to true.

Example Spreadsheet

*blob
reduceskipcomment
tagSearch**
starAll artwork tagged star or blob will be reduced
starfalseOnly the star will be reduced
startrueOnly the blob will be reduced
""Only the blob will be reduced, this would work even if a default star tag was provided in the header's tagSearch property cell

Original Layer Panel

Original Layer Panel

Layer Panel After Applying Reduce

Layer Panel After Applying reduce

Original Artwork

Original Artwork

Row 1 - Artwork

Artwork After Row 1

Row 2 - Artwork

Artwork after Row 2

Row 3 & 4- Artwork

Artwork After Rows 3 & 4

Reduce Properties

ModeDescription
tagSearch 
The tag search of artwork to reduce.
* 
Set to false if you want the method to be skipped in a particular row.
Valid Values: true or false
skip 
Set to true is you want the method to be skipped in a particular row.
See * and Skip for details.
Valid Values: true or false
Last Updated: 3/18/26, 2:06 AM
Contributors: Trevor
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