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Resize Artboard

Forum|Forum|16 years ago
February 6, 2009
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Unsure if Im asking in the right spot but is it possible to automate the resizing of the artboard say from A0 down to A1

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Correct answer Larry G. Schneider

No. Artboard size is created with the document and cannot be changed.

From the Scripting Reference:

A documents color space, height, and width can only be set when the document is created. You cannot modify these properties in an existing document.

You would have to create a new document at the right size and move everything to the new document.

David330756868gcp

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Yes, Shift+o.

LeoMari-eL6mBl

Inspiring

#target illustrator

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var docVB = doc.visibleBounds;

var left = docVB[0] - 10;

var top = docVB[1] + 10;

var right = docVB[2] + 10;

var bottom = docVB[3] - 10;

var ab = doc.artboards.getActiveArtboardIndex();

doc.artboards[ab].artboardRect = [left,top,right,bottom];

Tom Friedmann

Participating Frequently

Hi,

First an elegant solution, and then a question.

If your goal is to reduce the size of the artboard to the visible boundaries of the artwork, this works like gang busters. (I can't take credit, but I can share it.)

#target illustrator

var doc = app.activeDocument;
doc.artboards[0].artboardRect = doc.visibleBounds;

Now, I'd like to enlarge the artboard on all sides by say, 20px. I don't want to set specific X and Y coordinates, since the art I will be running it on is variably-sized.

How do we then enlarge the artboard dimensions relatively from the new artboard values? Thanks for the Applescript, Panda, btw.

This should be easy, but I can't quite figure it out. Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, you'll be saving my rear end.

-t

Tom Friedmann

Participating Frequently

OK, with some help, I have a JS ExtendScript that works, but I still need help making it more batchable.

This script below will for perform the following two changes to all open documents:

Shrink the artboard to the "visible" art (beware of clipping masks, which it sometimes breaks on)
Increases the artboard out 20 increments on all sides. Keep in mind that the values are in the sequence are: left, top, right, and bottom dimensions. It's helpful to know that the left value and the bottom value begin at zero; thus, when you want to add space to the artboard, you need negative numbers, as shown.
Save and close the open documents.

var myDocs = app.documents;
var i = 0;

for (i = myDocs.length-1 ; i >= 0; i--)

{

var doc = myDocs;

app.activeDocument= doc;

var myVisibleBounds = doc.visibleBounds; //Rect, which is an array;

myVisibleBounds[0] -= 20;

myVisibleBounds[1] += 20;

myVisibleBounds[2] += 20;

myVisibleBounds[3] -= 20;

doc.artboards[0].artboardRect = myVisibleBounds;

doc.close(SaveOptions.SAVECHANGES);

}

But this is limited, since you can only load so many files at once into Illustrator. Does anyone know how to point the JS at a folder?

Thanks!

Tom

qdesign8

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Forum|Forum|15 years ago
October 1, 2010

Sorry forgot to take comment out of previous post (not that it stops it from working):

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

tell current document

tell artboard 1

--get original page size

set artPage to artboard rectangle

set x1orig to item 1 of artPage

set y1orig to item 2 of artPage

set x2orig to item 3 of artPage

set y2orig to item 4 of artPage

set newHeight to text returned of (display dialog "enter increase in height in mm" default answer "")

set newWidth to text returned of (display dialog "enter increase in width in mm" default answer "")

--determine new page size

set x1new to (x1orig - newWidth / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set y1new to (y1orig + newHeight / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set x2new to (x2orig + newWidth / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set y2new to (y2orig - newHeight / 2 * 2.834645) as real

--set new page size

set artboard rectangle to {x1new, y1new, x2new, y2new}

end tell --artboard

end tell --document

end tell --AI

qdesign8

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Forum|Forum|15 years ago
October 1, 2010

I amended panda42_s script to allow variable adjustment of height and width:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

tell current document

tell artboard 1

--get original page size

set artPage to artboard rectangle

set x1orig to item 1 of artPage

set y1orig to item 2 of artPage

set x2orig to item 3 of artPage

set y2orig to item 4 of artPage

set newHeight to text returned of (display dialog "enter increase in height in mm" default answer "")

set newWidth to text returned of (display dialog "enter increase in width in mm" default answer "")

--determine new page size (add half inch in each direction)

set x1new to (x1orig - newWidth / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set y1new to (y1orig + newHeight / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set x2new to (x2orig + newWidth / 2 * 2.834645) as real

set y2new to (y2orig - newHeight / 2 * 2.834645) as real

--set new page size

set artboard rectangle to {x1new, y1new, x2new, y2new}

end tell --artboard

end tell --document

end tell --AI

panda42_s

Participant
Forum|Forum|16 years ago
October 22, 2009

I use Applescript, so I do not know if this works for anybody else, but this is where I ended up:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

tell current document

tell artboard 1

--get original page size

set artPage to artboard rectangle

set x1orig to item 1 of artPage

set y1orig to item 2 of artPage

set x2orig to item 3 of artPage

set y2orig to item 4 of artPage

--determine new page size (add half inch in each direction)

set x1new to (x1orig - 36) as real

set y1new to (y1orig + 36) as real

set x2new to (x2orig + 36) as real

set y2new to (y2orig - 36) as real

--set new page size

set artboard rectangle to {x1new, y1new, x2new, y2new}

end tell --artboard

end tell --document

end tell --AI

NoGODisGOOD

Participant
Forum|Forum|16 years ago
April 20, 2009

The only way I have found to do this is to copy the contents of the original into a new document.

Here is my code:

tell application "Adobe Illustrator"

activate

open your_doc.ai --replace with your filename and path

tell me to do shell script "sleep 3"

tell application "System Events" --Select all.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate

key code 0 using command down

end tell

tell application "System Events" --Group objects, may not be necessary.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate

key code 5 using command down

end tell

tell application "System Events" --Copy selection.

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate

key code 8 using command down

end tell

close this_file without saving --out with the old, in with the new

--make a new artboard with the appropriate dimentions

set docRef to make new document with properties {«class caCS»:«constant eCLSeCyM», «class pSHw»:205.2, «class pSHh»:61.2, «class pNAr»:1, «class pALy»:«constant eDALpGrR», «class pASp»:20.0, «class pARC»:3}

tell application "System Events"

tell application "Adobe Illustrator" to activate

key code 9 using command down

end tell

------------------

In the above, "«class pSHw»:" is width in pixels, "«class pSHw»:" is height in pixels, «class pNAr»: is the number of artboards.

The artboard with automatically be centered.

I figured this out from messing with the default scripts.

There is no way to do it in the current document, so this is the only workaround.

Cheers.

Anonymous

Not sure if this is what you want, but you can resize the artboard in CS4 with this call in javascript

app.activeDocument.artboards[0].artboardRect = [333,1182,1197,318];

CaptainJoey

Participant
Forum|Forum|16 years ago
September 1, 2009

I get a crash in VB when I try it in CS4 VB script.

aiDoc.ArtBoard.ArtboardRect(0)=333
aiDoc.ArtBoard.ArtboardRect(1)=1182
aiDoc.ArtBoard.ArtboardRect(2)=1197
aiDoc.ArtBoard.ArtboardRect(3)=318

_RSW_Author

Participant
Forum|Forum|16 years ago
February 6, 2009

Dang

Thanx for the very quick response.

Ok can I ask this then
What I really want to do is automate the making of PDF's of multiple standard sizes, outline text 71% reduction each time so that I get A0 down to A4 final PDF's is this possible in some way

Larry G. SchneiderCorrect answer

Community Expert
Forum|Forum|16 years ago
February 6, 2009

D Zurn

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Forum|Forum|16 years ago
November 25, 2009

I wrote a Javascript that will resize the artboard in Illustrator CS4.

 
/**********************************************************
 
FitArtboardToArt.jsx

DESCRIPTION
In Adobe Illustrator CS4, fit the artboard to the visible bounds of a document.
NOTE: The script leaves behind some artifacts in the document window but is correct.

Darryl Zurn, 2009-11-25 daz-scripting@zzzurn.com
 
**********************************************************/

if (app.documents.length > 0) {
     var docRef = app.activeDocument;
     if (docRef.artboards.length > 1) 
     {
          alert('Need exactly one artboard');
          quit;
          }
     // Found 1 artboard
     
     var myVisibleBounds = docRef.pageItems[0].visibleBounds;
     
     // The VisibleBounds rect is in this order: left, right, top, bottom
     // so use variables to show which side we are using
     var myLeft = 0;   var myRight = 1;   var myTop = 2;   var myBottom = 3; 
     for ( var i = 1; i < docRef.pageItems.length ; i += 1 ) 
     { 
          // We want the ultimate maximum bounds, so select the minimum left and bottom, and max right and top of our rect.
          myVisibleBounds[myLeft  ] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myLeft  ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myLeft  ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myRight ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myRight ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myRight ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myTop   ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myTop   ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myTop   ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myBottom] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myBottom], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myBottom] );
          }
     // We have our maximum bounds, so use it to set the document's (only) artboard
     docRef.artboards[0].artboardRect = myVisibleBounds;
}
else {
     alert('Open a document before running this script', 'Error running FitArtboardToArt.jsx');
}

hari_kdr

Known Participant
Forum|Forum|15 years ago
October 9, 2010

Hi D Zurn

Your script is really working great. Is it possible that we can maintain some certain distance instead of fitting exactly? I mean now it is exactly fitting with artwork. I am requesting to maintain 10mm from 4 sides.

If it is possible, please edit this script.

if (app.documents.length > 0) {
     var docRef = app.activeDocument;
     if (docRef.artboards.length > 1)
     {
          alert('Need exactly one artboard');
          quit;
          }
     // Found 1 artboard

     var myVisibleBounds = docRef.pageItems[0].visibleBounds;

     // The VisibleBounds rect is in this order: left, right, top, bottom
     // so use variables to show which side we are using
     var myLeft = 0;   var myRight = 1;   var myTop = 2;   var myBottom = 3;
     for ( var i = 1; i < docRef.pageItems.length ; i += 1 )
     {
          // We want the ultimate maximum bounds, so select the minimum left and bottom, and max right and top of our rect.
          myVisibleBounds[myLeft ] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myLeft ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myLeft ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myRight ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myRight ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myRight ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myTop   ] = Math.max( myVisibleBounds[myTop   ], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myTop   ] );
          myVisibleBounds[myBottom] = Math.min( myVisibleBounds[myBottom], docRef.pageItems.visibleBounds[myBottom] );
          }
     // We have our maximum bounds, so use it to set the document's (only) artboard
     docRef.artboards[0].artboardRect = myVisibleBounds;
}
else {
     alert('Open a document before running this script', 'Error running FitArtboardToArt.jsx');
}

Thanks in advance..

Regards

HARI

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