How to automatically move and align objects with scripts as below shown? Any help would be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance!
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Given simple line-art you can simply loop the items to correct their .top and .left properties. As these objects are the same dimensions with the example they will by definition already be aligned centrally to the targets.
Assuming that your layers are just as you have them:
var targetObjects = doc.layers.getByName("Target Position").pathItems;
var objectsToMove = [
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[0].pathItems[0],
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[1].
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As @Silly-V noted, if the objects are simple it's the script can be simple. When I tackled this a while back, I found the objects I needed to align are rarely simple so I wrote MatchObjects.jsx. Basically, you pick a source object (either the top or bottom object of your selection) and choose how to "match" all of the other objects in your selection to it. It does more than just aligning, but it may get you headed in the right direction. @Disposition_Dev helped with some edge cases for the `getV
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I actually created some alignment utilities for public use a while back. Given a "key object" and an array of objects you want to align, it handles all the positioning quirks (including the visible bounds thing that @jduncan mentioned).
The initial implementation was pretty clunky and awfully repetitive. So I just took some time and simpilified it. It used to be discreet functions for each different alignment option... silly. So i condensed it all down to one function called align() which take
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So, I tried to piece together what you are looking to accomplish from the few different posts you have going right now. If you can get the layer duplication method (using actions) working that @Silly-V explained here, then with a slight tweak to my rename script will work for you.
After following @Silly-V's advice, you should have a bunch of duplicate layers in your layers palette (like left side in pic). The script below renames all of your base layers from 1 to however many layers you have. Then it recursively goes through every sublayer within each base layer and removes the "copy" text that gets added when you duplicate a layer.
Hope this helps!
// Do all of the layer duplications first as explained by Silly-V
// grab the current document and its layers
var doc = app.activeDocument;
var layers = doc.layers;
// iterate through all layers from bottom to top
for (var i = doc.layers.length - 1; i > -1; i--) {
doc.layers[i].name = Math.abs(i - doc.layers.length);
// recursively remove "copy" every sublayer
recursiveRename(doc.layers[i]);
}
function recursiveRename(parent) {
for (var i = 0; i < parent.layers.length; i++) {
parent.layers[i].name = parent.layers[i].name.replace(/\scopy.*$/, "");
recursiveRename(parent.layers[i]);
}
}
Hey, @Silly-V
Can you help me answer this question? Many thanks in advance for your time and advice!
Thank you @Silly-V for pointing me in the right direction!
I have just started to learn JavaScript, and I have been using VBA before (thanks to the advice and help of @Disposition_Dev and @CarlosCanto , let me enter the world of JS). This forum is a good place to start!
I want to ask you a question about the following method of declaring variables:
var objectsToMove = [
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[0].pathItems[0],
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[1].pathItems[0],
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[2].pathItems[0]
];
I'm curious about this declaration method. It seems that this variable is defined with a constant value pathitems [0] ? When it is objectsToMove[i], what value is the objectsToMove ? Is it below?
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[0].pathItems[i],
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[1].pathItems[i],
doc.layers.getByName("To move aligned objects").layers[2].pathItems[i]
I really don't understand why it can be like this?
And what value is the objectsToMove.length ？Is it layers [0]. pathitems length? or layers[1].pathItems. length? or layers[2].pathItems. length? Or the sum of them? If the number of pathitems in each layer is different, can it be executed correctly?
Many thanks in advance for your time and advice!
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