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Script to find the area of shapes in Adobe Illustrator
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/* Save this file with a jsx extension and place in your | |
Illustrator/Presets/en_US/Scripts folder. You can then | |
access it from the File > Scripts menu */ | |
var decimalPlaces = 3; | |
if (app.documents.length > 0) { | |
if (app.activeDocument.selection.length < 1) { | |
alert('Select a path'); | |
} else if (app.activeDocument.selection[0].area) { | |
// Individual Items | |
var objects = app.activeDocument.selection; | |
} else if (app.activeDocument.selection[0].pathItems) { | |
// Group/Compound Shape | |
var objects = app.activeDocument.selection[0].pathItems; | |
} else { | |
alert('Please select a path or group.'); | |
} | |
// Collect info | |
var totalArea = 0; | |
for (var i=0; i<objects.length; i++) { | |
if (objects[i].area) { | |
var totalArea = totalArea + objects[i].area; | |
} | |
} | |
// Conversions | |
var ppi = 72; | |
var areaIn = totalArea / ppi / ppi; | |
if (areaIn < 0) var areaIn = -areaIn; | |
var areaMm = areaIn * 645.16; | |
var aeraCm = areaIn * 6.4516; | |
var areaMtr = areaIn * 0.00064516; | |
// Display | |
alert('Shape Area\ | |
' + areaMm.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + ' mm² \ | |
' + areaCm.toFixed(decimalPlaces) + ' cm² \ | |
' + areaMtr.toFixed(decimalPlaces + 3) + ' m² \n\ | |
' + i + ' shapes'); | |
} |
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