CS6: Measure a shape’s area?

It works for me. I think the culprit could be your not saving it as really plain text, just changing the file ending is not enough.

Or that your actually have a syntax error.

The script is not mine, but I take liberty and attach my version of the entire script below.

But be aware that if you have too many and too complex shapes, the script does not calculate correct at all times.

Best regards, Alfred.

if (app.documents.length > 0) {

  if (app.activeDocument.selection.length < 1) {

  alert('Select a path first');

  } else if (app.activeDocument.selection[0].area) {

  // Individual Items

  var objects =  app.activeDocument.selection;

  } else if (app.activeDocument.selection[0].pathItems) {

  // Group/Compound Shape

  var objects = app.activeDocument.selection[0].pathItems;

  } else {

  alert('Please select a path or group.');

  }

  // Collect info

  var totalArea = 0;

  for (var i=0; i<objects.length; i++) {

  if (objects.area) {

  var totalArea = totalArea + objects.area;

  }

  }

  // Conversions

  var ppCm = 28.34645669291;

  var areaInCm = Math.round((totalArea / ppCm / ppCm) * 100) / 100;

  if (areaInCm < 0) var areaInCm = -areaInCm;

  // Display

  alert('Shape Area\n' + areaInCm + ' square centimeters \n' + i + ' shapes');

}

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alert("Area & Length\nArea: " + (app.activeDocument.selection[0].area/5184).toFixed(3) + "\nLength: " + (app.activeDocument.selection[0].length/72).toFixed(3));

This is for inches to 3 decimal places.

Copy the above and paste into a new window in either the ExtendScript Tool Kit (ESTK found in Applications/Utilities/Adobe Utilities) or in a text editor. If you use the text editor make sure you save it as plain text with a .jsx extension. Place it in the Application/Adobe Illustrator CSX/Presets/en_US/Scripts folder and restart. Open a file, select an object and run the script from File/Scripts.

I’ve read that before, but it did not actually help me.