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January 11, 2017 20:52
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This script is for Illustrator CC. It resizes objects to have the same diagonal dimension.
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// BalanceDiagonal.jsx | |
// 2017 Todd Linkner | |
// License: none (public domain) | |
// v1.0 | |
// | |
// This script is for Illustrator CC. It resizes objects to have the same diagonal dimension. | |
// | |
// Install to /Applications/Adobe Illustrator CC/en_US/Scripts/Mobile | |
// bring Illustrator into focus | |
#target illustrator | |
var activeDoc = app.activeDocument, | |
selection = activeDoc.selection; | |
if (activeDoc && selection.length == 1) { | |
var w = selection[0].width, | |
h = selection[0].height, | |
hypotenuse = Math.sqrt(Math.pow(w, 2) + Math.pow(h, 2)), | |
items = activeDoc.layers[0].pageItems | |
; | |
for (i = items.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { | |
var w2 = items[i].width, | |
h2 = items[i].height, | |
// theta = atan(opposite/adjacent) | |
angle = Math.atan(h2/w2) | |
; | |
// adjacent = cos(angle) * hypotenuse | |
items[i].width = Math.cos(angle) * hypotenuse; | |
// opposite = sin(angle) * hypotenuse | |
items[i].height = Math.sin(angle) * hypotenuse; | |
} | |
alert("Done."); | |
} else { | |
alert("Error: Missing active document or selection or a single object. Try again."); | |
} |
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