Auto Cropping Object Within Bounding Box

MrIHaZe,

"If I were to bring the images in on a blank document the initial bounding box/image frame is already set based on the image itself"

This made me wonder whether there is some strangeness/corruption in the document.

What happens if you copy and paste the different parts of artwork into a new document?

Hi @MrIHaZe, thanks for the demo file. I'm not sure if this script does what you want, but can you try it out and let me know. Note that it doesn't alter the image placed in Illustrator, it justs crops it.

- Mark

/**
 * Clips a placed item based on it's traceable area.
 * @author m1b
 */
(function () {

    var doc = app.activeDocument,
        item = clipToTraceableArea(doc.selection[0]);

    /**
     * Returns a clipping group using a rectangle
     * based on the traceable area of the given image.
     * @param {PlacedItem|RasterItem} item - a traceable item.
     * @param {Number} margin - the distance in points to add to each side of the clipping rectangle (default: 5).
     * @returns {GroupItem}
     */
    function clipToTraceableArea(item, margin) {

        if (margin == undefined)
            margin = 5;

        if (item.trace == undefined)
            return;

        var traceThis = item.duplicate().trace();
        var tracingOptions = traceThis.tracing;
        tracingOptions.tracingMode = TracingModeType.TRACINGMODEBLACKANDWHITE;
        tracingOptions.ignoreWhite = true;
        tracingOptions.threshold = 255;
        tracingOptions.pathFitting = 5.0;
        tracingOptions.fills = true;
        tracingOptions.strokes = false;
        tracingOptions.cornerAngle = 135;
        var tracedItem = tracingOptions.expandTracing();
        tracedItem.pathItems[tracedItem.pathItems.length - 1].remove();

        var bounds = tracedItem.visibleBounds;
        tracedItem.remove();

        bounds[0] -= margin;
        bounds[1] += margin;
        bounds[2] += margin;
        bounds[3] -= margin;

        // draw the clipping rectangle
        var rect = doc.pathItems.rectangle(bounds[1], bounds[0], bounds[2] - bounds[0], bounds[1] - bounds[3]);
        var group = doc.activeLayer.groupItems.add();
        group.move(item, ElementPlacement.PLACEBEFORE);
        item.move(group, ElementPlacement.PLACEATEND);
        rect.move(group, ElementPlacement.PLACEATBEGINNING);
        group.clipped = true;
        rect.clipping = true;

        if (item.selected == true) {
            item.selected = false;
            group.selected = true;
        }

    };

})();