Determining the angle of a line segment.

That was just a function to get the lenght and angle of a path.

Here is an example sscript showing how to call that function. You save the script anywhere as plain text. If you want it to show up in the scripts menu you save it in the app/presets/scripts folder.

Then with a simple line path as the work path you run the script by Choosing FIle-Scripts-nameOfScript if you saveed it in the scripts folder or File-Scripts-Browse if you saved it somewhere else.

var p = app.activeDocument.pathItems.getByName('Work Path');
alert(measureLine(p)[1]);// alert just the angle.
function measureLine(path){
   var res = new Array;
   var lineStart = path.subPathItems[0].pathPoints[0].anchor; 
   var lineEnd = path.subPathItems[0].pathPoints[1].anchor;
   var a = Math.max(lineStart[0],lineEnd[0])-Math.min(lineStart[0],lineEnd[0]);
   var o = Math.max(lineStart[1],lineEnd[1])-Math.min(lineStart[1],lineEnd[1]);
   var c = Math.round(Math.sqrt((a*a)+(o*o)));
   res.push(c);
   var ang = (180/Math.PI) * Math.atan2(o,a);
   if(lineStart[1] < lineEnd[1]){//negative angle 
      ang = -ang; 
   };
   res.push(ang);
   return res;
}