Script calculating a given size of area for a given object

Question

I work a lot with car decals and designs in illustrator. It would help a lot with a script which would calculate the area in square meters for given objects. For now i have to manually calculate and punch the actual numbers on a calculator. Time consuming. Should be easy to extrat this data from the program some how. Does anyone now if it exists a script for this?

Doug A Roberts · Accepted Answer

Microsoft Word saved as plain text. On save It is a dialogue box with a number of options. I have tried all of them. No success.

I'm not sure I'd trust Word to save actual plain text regardless of what it says.

Either use an actual text editor or go to the URL for the raw text on Git and save the page directly:

https://gist.githubusercontent.com/bryanbuchanan/11387501/raw/dcdf4810bce2e62c7bf14c4a54ace3d692410fec/GetShapeArea.jsx

Doug A Roberts · Answer

There is a script here that does just that:

https://gist.github.com/bryanbuchanan/11387501

Readsing the thread on that git page, another user seems to have adapted it with ScriptUI and selectable units:

https://github.com/schroef/Illustrator-Scripts/blob/master/GetShapeArea-dialog-v005.jsx

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