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

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August 7, 2018
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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!

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Correct answer CarlosCanto

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

Silly-V

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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.

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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)