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How to make objects equal size

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June 11, 2008
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Can someone tell me an easy way to make several objects to be of equal size/ or equal width / or equal height.

I haven't been able to find such a command in Illustrator.

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Correct answer canyonviewchurch

I stumbled on a sort of clumsy way to do this...but still takes a bit of time depending on the number of objects. Selecat all you objects and align them centered. Yes this will "pile" them all up, but at least now when you type in the common heighth ot width (whichever is more important to you) it will size them all the same. The time consuming part is then unstacking them and distributing them the way you needed in the beginning. Hope that helps somebody.

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Sarah29851611ral6

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Select all objects, while selected, click 'Transform' up top (its dotted underlined) and type in the desired size. It will change every object to that size!

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KG_BK

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I'm not sure why, but this is not working for me 😞

Monika Gause

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@KG_BK schrieb:

I'm not sure why, but this is not working for me 😞

Please create a new thread and post an exact description of your issue.

Screenshots help.

canyonviewchurchCorrect answer

Participating Frequently

I stumbled on a sort of clumsy way to do this...but still takes a bit of time depending on the number of objects. Selecat all you objects and align them centered. Yes this will "pile" them all up, but at least now when you type in the common heighth ot width (whichever is more important to you) it will size them all the same. The time consuming part is then unstacking them and distributing them the way you needed in the beginning. Hope that helps somebody.

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CrespoX6

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Thanks Josh this was the fastest and easiest way to tackle my 50 names that needed to be the same size.

Appreciated!

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keyur1610

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"Set all the things" doesn't keep proportions and transform each can't do specific height or width.

I found a weird hack to do this.

1. Copy all your objects to new documents

2. Create an action

3. Record your transform action, for example, height 500px.

4. In a separate action, Record Select 'Next object below'

5. Now loop through action 3 and 4 by recording action within the action.

Here's how it looks. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ioQ1dR7cNDc3pYDoAkHiyKWs-OpIrtU0/view

Kandl Studio

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Hi keyur1610!
I can't seem to record a 'Play action'. How did you do that?
To get around that, I just looped 2 actions many times — 'transform' and 'select object below'.

'select object below' is a game changer, thank you for that!!

Would love to understand your method more! I have a roundabout kinda automation!

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keyur1610

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Hi Kandl, I have recorded video of whole process. Check attachment.

2022-01-01_13-20-49.zip

Embin89

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An old question but here is a possible answer:

- Select all the objects

- Go to the appearance panel [shigft-F6]

- Click on the small FX button on the bottom of the panel

- Choose Convert to Shape

- There choose Rectangle and Size absolute. Choose your width and heigth

Only works with basic shapes because it converts your object to these basic shapes.

sorenw64146368

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Really, Illustrator cannot align figures??

Mike_Gondek10189183

Community Expert

You could record an action. I assume your objects vary in size, so you can assign a key command which will make applying this quickly to each item.

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smkbhd

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thank you so much

niceeee

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d0nut247

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This is the real answer to the ongoing problem. Have set it as an F key action as its always the same problem - dump a load of Images and then spend ages scaling them all to match. this is a few clicks and taps to get it done. it’s a shame as Figma just ’does it’, and is quickly becoming a better way to so stuff like this despite its purpose for an entirely differnt task.

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Walter Bosello

Participating Frequently

One of the many missing features in Illustrator.
You could use Animate or Flash (you find the button in the align panel). Then export in SVG format and import into your Illustrator document.

Hope this was helpful

Monika Gause

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www.wundes.com

In the scripts section you will find the script "Set all the things"

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_Gary_Newman_

Participating Frequently

Assuming that each of your graphics exists somewhere as an individual file, I'd do this project in InDesign. Make a grid of box frames of the size you want, apply Place and get all the graphics at once, and click once on each box in order. Drag select all the boxes and apply Object - Fitting - Fit Content Proportionately.

JETalmage

Inspiring

It could be done with Javascript, but shouldn't have to be, given that Illustrator has a Transform Each dialog. It should reside there in the form of a relative/absolute radio button option.

There should also be a checkbox for Proportional, so one doesn't have to key the same value in both scale fields. Same goes for Transform Effect dialog.

Random should be provided as separate checkboxes for the Scale, Move, and Rotate areas, instead of just one for all three.

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Scott Falkner

Community Expert

You could make is a script. Perhaps it is actionable. Not trying now, but I'll guess Not.

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_Daniela_Dimitrova_Author

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Thanks for the suggestion, but this is not a "quick and easy" way if I have e.g. 50 pictures imported into the document that have to be made of equal size before arranging them into a figure for publication (something that I have to do routinely for my work). I will have to type 50 times the required values for each individual picture.

Some graphics programs have a "Make equal size" command that can achieve this for the whole batch in one or two clicks, but such a command seems to be missing in Illustrator. The "Transform each" command does not allow to specify a size and the scaling option is useless in my case.

I would be grateful to hear more suggestions.

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