Retrieve shear angle

[Abpujar]

Hi all , I would like to know how to retrieve the value of shear angle which is applied to the pathItems(ex:shear angle applied to the rectangle, here rectangle is created using path) . How can we retrieve the value of shear angle in this scenario? 

[Mylenium]

You basicalyl can't after the fact since it's not applied parametrically. In some simple cases like a rectangle you could re-calculate it based on distinct anchor points and their positional differences compared to where they would be in unsheared state, but this quickly falls apart on more complex paths.

Mylenium

[Abpujar]

Thank you for the response Mylenium. Is there any solution for retrieve the shear angle of the shape? 

[Ton Frederiks]

In simple cases you could create a vertical line, turn on View > Smart Guides, shear the line and read the angle.

[Abpujar]

Hi Ton Frederiks , I want to retrieve the shear angle of the shape through the script. need script to retrieve the shear angle of shape. 

[Ton Frederiks]

Ah, missed that part, maybe the scripting gods can help.

[Abpujar]

Hi @m1b can you please help me to rretrieve the shear angle details of pathItem and placedItem. 

[m1b]

Hi @Abpujar, well @Mylenium's comment is correct. There is no way that I know of, unless you know the order of transformations that were done on the shape. For example, was it skewed or rotated first? Can you post an example file? I have an idea or two, but I'm not hopeful that they will work.

- Mark