I've got a trapezoid that is the guide box and artwork that needs to always be maxed size to fit it. I've wrote a script that will place the artwork bottom center then move it up 3points so that it isn't touching. I need the script to loop through and resize by 101% then redo the center function and check collide again. I'm not even sure if there is a .collide or how to go about that but I went ahead and wrote the rest of the script. The part that reads "arttouchguide.collide" on line 07 is the part that I'm having problems with and it is just a place holder as I know that it doesn't work right now. Below the code is a .jpg of what I'm working with.
#target illustrator var selecteditem = app.activeDocument.groupItems[0]; for ( arttouchguide.collide = false) { selecteditem.resize(101,101); centerArt()
}
function centerArt()
{ var thisdoc = app.activeDocument; var selecteditem = app.activeDocument.groupItems[0]; selecteditem.selected = true; var hasDocCoords = app.coordinateSystem == CoordinateSystem.ARTBOARDCOORDINATESYSTEM; var p = thisdoc.pageItems; for (var i = 0, l = p.length; i < l; i++) { var pID = p[i]; if (pID.guides == true) { var guideBox = pID } } var wNum = guideBox.width; var hNum = guideBox.height; var swNum = selecteditem.width; var shNum = selecteditem.height; var sxOffset = (swNum/2); var syOffset = (shNum); var xOffset = (wNum/2); var yOffset = (hNum-3); var xNum = guideBox.position[0]+xOffset; var yNum = guideBox.position[1]-yOffset; var guideXCenter = xNum-sxOffset; var guideYCenter = yNum+(syOffset); var sxNum = selecteditem.position[0]+sxOffset; var syNum = selecteditem.position[1]-syOffset; //to test your script for position un annotate the two alerts below // alert("GuideBox Data:\nWidth: "+wNum+"\nHeight: "+hNum+"\nX Position: "+xNum+"\nY Position: "+yNum); // alert ("Selected object Data:\nWidth: "+swNum+"\nHeight: "+shNum+"\nX Position: "+sxNum+"\nY Position: "+syNum); //changes the position of the selected artwork to the center of the guide box. selecteditem.position = [guideXCenter, guideYCenter] }//end centerart
The red line is the guide box, the lime part is the artwork. It will increase the size of the art, recenter it, move it up 3 points and check for overlap/collide and repeat till it is touching. This is the only way that I can think of to max out the artwork inside a trapezoid.