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Rotate an entire document with all elements 90 degrees

  • October 20, 2020
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Using extended panel I'm trying to rotate an entire document and it's elements 90 degrees. 

The document consist of about 30 layers with some "hidden" meaning they are not displaying because they don't have any elements.  The rotation would have to be on everything including artboard.  Basically the equivalent of highlighting all and then "rotating" on the AI interface.

 

I've tried the rotate script: https://github.com/mprewitt/AI-Rotate-Artboard

It doesn't work as it says it's extremly buggy.

Is this possible in illustrator scripting?

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Correct answer femkeblanco

This is a basic idea:

var groups = app.activeDocument.groupItems;
var d = app.activeDocument.artboards[0].artboardRect;
rect1 = app.activeDocument.pathItems.rectangle(d[1], d[0], d[2], -d[3]);
app.executeMenuCommand( "selectall" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "group" );
groups[0].rotate(-90);
app.executeMenuCommand( "deselectall" );
rect1.selected = true;
app.executeMenuCommand( "setCropMarks" );
app.activeDocument.artboards[0].remove();
app.executeMenuCommand( "selectall" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "ungroup" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "deselectall" );

 

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femkeblanco
femkeblancoCorrect answer
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October 20, 2020

This is a basic idea:

var groups = app.activeDocument.groupItems;
var d = app.activeDocument.artboards[0].artboardRect;
rect1 = app.activeDocument.pathItems.rectangle(d[1], d[0], d[2], -d[3]);
app.executeMenuCommand( "selectall" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "group" );
groups[0].rotate(-90);
app.executeMenuCommand( "deselectall" );
rect1.selected = true;
app.executeMenuCommand( "setCropMarks" );
app.activeDocument.artboards[0].remove();
app.executeMenuCommand( "selectall" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "ungroup" );
app.executeMenuCommand( "deselectall" );

 

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