visibleBounds seems to have changed behavior between 2014 and 2018

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August 22, 2018
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Just installed our new PC and got Illy 2018 ( we have 2014 on the previous machine ).

We have a script that creates a document and then crops it to the visibleBounds rectangle.

That worked just fine in Illustrator 2014 but in 2018 instead of returning the real visual bound - it rather seems to return the Artboard bound of the document

I suspect there is a chance my approach may have been wrong at the first place but it worked before (by luck?).

Can someone please tell me how to deal with it ?

( I installed the 2014 on the new machine but now I am back to the dreadful PARM errors very often. I guess the new machine is too fast for the old Illy )

thanks in advance

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kerenm51152362Author

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Thanks everyone for the help.

I found the real problem and hence the difference between the Illustrator 2014 and 2018

When looked closely at my file, I noticed an empty Path object at the outer perimeter

In Illustrator 2014 an empty path object does not count for "visible" and thus the visible boundary was smaller while in 2018 version it does count even though it is empty and has no stroke or anything at all

Disposition_Dev

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"visibleBounds" is not a valid property of the document object.

visibleBounds is a property of PageItem

Silly-V

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Actually believe it or not, it is!

When the document is blank, it alerts this: 0,0,0,0.

But when you have a square with a 1 pt stroke with its geo bounds (the path corner) at 0,0 the visibleBounds are:

-0.5,0.5,150.5,-150.5

Disposition_Dev

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additionally, i'm confused about what you mean when you say that your script "creates a new document and then crops it to the visible bounds". If you're creating a new document, presumably there is no artwork in it, so there can be no visible bounds, as visibleBounds is a property of an art object.

if you can provide as much information as possible, we will have a much better chance of being helpful.