Script to match size and position of foreground object with object behind it?

[christopherb291242]

Is there a script that anyone here knows of to match a foreground object's size and position to that of the object behind it? Currently I have to copy x, y, width and height values from the background object and paste them into the respective fields of the foreground object to match them. Thank you!

[Silly-V]

This could work if we're working in a constrained scope of use - such as, there's got to be a grounding rule to help us determine which objects in the document are the background objects of what other objects.

[christopherb291242]

Yes the process would be to select the two objects and run the script. Alternatively a copy/paste transform attributes would be cool too. Especially if it popped up with a box asking what of the transform attributes you wanted to paste/apply to your other object i.e. (paste x values and height, or paste x, y, width and height values or just the y and the height values etc)

[CarlosCanto · Accepted solution]

check Wundes copyToMultipleObjects script, his script deletes background object, so make a copy of it if you want to keep it.

GitHub - johnwun/js4ai: Collection of Javascripts for Adobe Illustrator

[christopherb291242]

Thanks Carlos, I tried that a couple of days ago, but I get a long complicated error message. It probably has something to do with the things I'm trying to apply this to are two groups containing compound paths.

[Silly-V]

This means you downloaded the web page the script was rendered inside of, instead you should highlight the text in your browser and use copy/paste to then paste the text into a notepad text editor and then save as .jsx format.

[christopherb291242]

Oh wow, I thought when you right clicked to save the link to the .js file in github it downloaded the .js file not the webpage. That worked wonderfully! Thank you Silly-V and CarlosCanto!

[Stephen Marsh]

These sorts of issues are common enough that I made a guide here:

Prepression: Downloading and Installing Adobe Scripts

[christopherb291242]

Thanks Stephen_A_Marsh!