Hi!
I have one problem… Im creating some script for scaling page items… and after succesful scaling there is “little” suprise in document:
ANY OBJECT WITH SOME STROKE after scaling have HUGE stroke size like 100 points (before it was 1 point)…
Its me, or Illustrator bug?
There is example of script:
– first create some rectangle or path with stroke (etc) then run script
tell application “Adobe Illustrator”
activate
set allPageItems to every page item of current document
set selection to allPageItems
set my_selection to selection
set my_scale to get identity matrix
set my_scale to concatenate scale matrix my_scale horizontal scale 100 vertical scale 50
transform my_selection using my_scale about document origin
end tell
I will be glad and happy for any help,
Best regards
Mirek
Model: iMacG5 17"
AppleScript: AppleScript 1.9.3
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.3.9)
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
set allPageItems to every page item of current document
set selection to allPageItems
set my_selection to selection
tell document 1
scale page item 1 horizontal scale 100.0 vertical scale 50.0 about center
end tell
end tell
I tried Pidge1’s script and it works just fine. Of course the question is why does the tell document statement make the difference? Anyway, using your first code you can also do it like this:
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
set allPageItems to every page item of current document
set selection to allPageItems
set my_selection to selection
set my_scale to get identity matrix
set my_scale to concatenate scale matrix my_scale horizontal scale 100 vertical scale 50
transform my_selection using my_scale about document origin line scale 0 -- where the line scale is a percentage
end tell
Previous script only did the one selected page item,
tell application "Illustrator CS"
activate
set allPageItems to every page item of current document
set selection to allPageItems
set my_selection to selection
tell document 1
scale every page item horizontal scale 100.0 vertical scale 50.0 about center
end tell
end tell
As I was curious about the result of this AS, I also tried it…and it really works.
But I was wondering, when I have a folder with a lot of files who need to be scaled, how should adjust this AS? I have to scale AI-files on a regular basis (customer wants to have their design today on this size, tomorrow on another size, etc. This takes a lot of time of course:))
All tips are welcome
Model: Powerbook 17"
AppleScript: 2.1
Browser: Safari
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.4)
This should help it won’t save them, though you will have to add that bit of code…
Sorry didn’t have time to add it.
property myfiletypes : {".ai"}
on open myfinderitems
repeat with myfinderitem in myfinderitems
tell application "Finder" to set myitemisfolder to (kind of myfinderitem = "folder")
if myitemisfolder then
tell application "Finder" to set myfoldercontents to (every item of myfinderitem)
open myfoldercontents
else
tell application "Finder" to set myitemextension to "." & (name extension of myfinderitem) as string
if myfiletypes contains myitemextension then
tell application "Illustrator CS"
open myfinderitem as alias
set mydocumentname to name of document 1
set current document to document (mydocumentname as string)
set allPageItems to every page item of current document
set selection to allPageItems
set my_selection to selection
tell document 1
scale every page item horizontal scale 100.0 vertical scale 50.0 about center
end tell
end tell
end if
end if
end repeat
end open
I could really use some help in regards to this same topic.
How do you scale a complex Illustrator file, i.e., a PDF opened in Illustrator that has many clipping masks and embedded images with many subgroups. Ungrouping won’t work because it removes the clippings masks. And in all my finding simply scaling all items into one group doesn’t seem to scale the embedded images?
But the program itself will scale all the images fine by manually grouping the items and then using Transform>Scale. So this leads me to believe that it should be scriptable?
I have attached an example file that demonstrates the issue with the scripts. I am using CS4, but that shouldn’t make a difference for what I am dealing with.
