Is it Possible to flip/reflect the entire canvas?

Forum|Forum|3 years ago
August 4, 2022
3 replies
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I want to flip/reflect the entire canvas horizontally. I know I can group everything and flip the group, but it would save me time and just be an easier workflow. This is possible in photoshop, is it possible in Illustrator??

MidoSemsem

Inspiring

Hi @jonmanker
I'm using this script and it works for me

var doc = app.documents[0] ;
var artRect = doc.artboards[doc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex()].artboardRect ;
var artboardCenter = [(artRect[0] + artRect[2]) / 2, (artRect[1] + artRect[3]) / 2] ;

try {
var documentOrigin = doc.rulerOrigin ;
doc.rulerOrigin = [doc.width/2,0]
doc.selectObjectsOnActiveArtboard();
var pageItems = doc.selection ;
for(var i = 0, len = pageItems.length ; i < len ; i++) {
pageItems[i].resize(-100, 100, true, true, true, true, false, Transformation.DOCUMENTORIGIN) ;
}
} catch(e) {
alert(e) ;
} finally {
doc.rulerOrigin = documentOrigin ;
}

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Jon,

In addition to what Monika said, if you wish to mirror the position on the Artboard, you can add a nostroke/nofill rectangle bounding the Artboard, to make it fully correspond to a mirroring in Photoshop.

jonmankerAuthor

Participant

Thank you for the response Jacob. I can do that, but I have a quite complicated file, different layers, and images with different sizes that will be printed out and must match exatly. When I do that the images slides around and I have to manually realign them. I just don't understand why there is no artboard flip/reflection.