Trying to expand my artboard and make a border in JavaScript

[Maple Stirrup]

I feel like I can figure this out, but that it might also take days.  I have a script that's changing the size of the artboard which seems to work just fine.  But what I also want is a border of the old artboard size and also one for the new arboard size.

Here's a screenshot of my attempt, which is not working except for the artboard changing.  I might be missing a layer reference? I'm not sure.  I'm trying two different ways,... setEntirePath and Rectangle and neither seem to work.  I might be pretty far off on more than one front, unfortunately I started this a few years ago, and I'm now getting back into it.  Jumping back in instead of starting fresh might have been a mistake.

The bottom 3 lines are newer lines I've recently added that don't work, the top 5 lines do seem to work.

 

[rcraighead]

If you paste your script text into the thread instead of a screen image others may be more apt to help since they can work with what you have.

[Maple Stirrup]

Thanks, I forget.. if you copy paste from ESTK, does it automatically format the text for you here to match how it looks there, or do you have copy it a special way to do that?

Also compltely unrelated to that, is it possible to turn off the ESTK chime when it runs into a compiling problem?

[CarlosCanto]

you can't add pathItems to artboards, change that to document or layer

[pixxxelschubser · Accepted solution]

Hi @Maple_Stirrup,

if I understand you right:

// draw a rectangle around the active artboard, enlarge this artboard, draw a second rectangle around the new artboard size
// regards pixxxelschubser

var aDoc = app.activeDocument;
var AB = aDoc.artboards;
var abIdx = AB.getActiveArtboardIndex ();
var oldAB = AB[abIdx].artboardRect;

var old_rect = aDoc.pathItems.rectangle (oldAB[1], oldAB[0], (oldAB[2]-oldAB[0]), (oldAB[1]-oldAB[3]));
old_rect.name = "old Artboard size";

AB[abIdx].artboardRect = [(oldAB[0]-72), (oldAB[1]+72), (oldAB[2]+72), (oldAB[3]-72)];
var newAB = AB[abIdx].artboardRect;
var new_rect = aDoc.pathItems.rectangle (newAB[1], newAB[0], (newAB[2]-newAB[0]), (newAB[1]-newAB[3]));
new_rect.name = "new Artboard size";

If that works for you

have fun

😉

[Maple Stirrup]

Thanks!