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Repeated resizing or repeated transform actions

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April 19, 2020
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In InDesign, if I have many images having different heights, and I want their height to be same, let's say 75 mm. I just change the height of one, then choose the option of Object>Transform sequence again individually. This does the job flawlessly.

How can I do this in Illustrator?

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Correct answer Ton Frederiks

Maybe this looks more like what you want:

This script proportionally resizes all selected objects according to the height of the lowest selected object.

http://illustrator.hilfdirselbst.ch/dokuwiki/en/skripte/javascript/height_proportional

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

Hi Ton,

This seems to be a day of scripts.

The weather seems to have serious mood swings here, beween (near) frosty and hot; and maybe the beginning of a long drought like last year. How there?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Yes Jacob, today they did run the sunny_windy script, perfect to do some work in the garden.

And we can use some rain too!

Ton Frederiks

Correct answer

Community Expert

Maybe this looks more like what you want:

This script proportionally resizes all selected objects according to the height of the lowest selected object.

http://illustrator.hilfdirselbst.ch/dokuwiki/en/skripte/javascript/height_proportional

dzgnr89Author

Inspiring

Thank you so much! This script works flawlessly like magic! I think I should request a feature in Illustrator for basic proportional resizing of objects like Adobe has in their InDesign.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Glad to hear that helped.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

arjun,

The JohnWundes setAllTheThings script lets you select the desired values of both W and H (or either (which may be appropriate in other cases) by removing the other one in the first option box), then it gives all paths the same values of both.

If you only know the desired new height to start with, you can start by scaling (or otherwise changing) the first object in the way that gives you to have both height and width for the script.

Jacob Bugge

Community Expert

arjun,

I believe you will really enjoy setAllTheThings in this set of free JohnWundes scripts,

http://www.wundes.com/JS4AI/

dzgnr89Author

Inspiring

I should have mentioned it in the original post. If I mention only the height in the plugin box, my images are squished disproportionately. They have the same height indeed but the aspect ratio disappears. I'm surprised by the Adobe team of developers. They included this simple resize feature in InDesign and not in Illustrator.

Anna Lander

Inspiring

If you plan to define the resizing in percents (e.g. 90%) instead of the linear units, width or height or both, you can select all the needed objects and choose Object > Transform > Transform Each (Shift + Alt/Opt + Ctrl/Cmd + D)

dzgnr89Author

Inspiring

Yeah I wish all the objects were equally sized initially and I could use percentages. They aren't.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

In the Transform panel, enter the Height of one image and press Return.

Select the next image and choose Object > Transform > Transform again (Cmd or Ctrl D)

dzgnr89Author

Inspiring

This method doesn't work. The other images is resized randomly after Ctrl+D as well as after choosing the command from the drop down menu.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Yes, I tried it with images that were the same size, but what this method is doing, it adds the same amount to the other images, so it will not work with images that have a different size.

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