Timeline for Illustrator: I need a script that manages paths based on maximum caliper diameter
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| Feb 14, 2017 at 15:53 | history | edited | Cai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 14:47 | history | edited | Ben Hoagland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 16, 2017 at 14:46 | vote | accept | Ben Hoagland | ||
| Jan 16, 2017 at 0:38 | answer | added | Jongware | timeline score: 8 | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 7:24 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackDesign/status/820532091876212736 | ||
| Jan 15, 2017 at 6:21 | comment | added | Confused | @BenHoagland if you hit up the Adobe Illustrator forums, they might have someone that knows not only enough of how to do this, but can partially write some of this for you. Some of the older guys that have grown up with Illustrator and After Effects have astonishing familiarity with the quirks and foibles of them, and their scripting. | |
| Jan 15, 2017 at 6:19 | comment | added | Confused | This should be possible. Pick a point, measure distance to all points, move to next point, do the same, store all, find the largest. Having found the largest distance, pick both points, determine the most southerly (lowest on screen) and set it as anchor. Rotate until other point is straight up, checking against the y position of the southern point... bit messy. But should be possible. I don't know enough about Illustrator's scripting to do it. Nor would I want to. Illustrator is a fiddly mess of oldness, legacy and outright archaic operations and procedures. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 22:35 | comment | added | Ben Hoagland | It should just pick one, randomly or whatever is first. I'm not too concerned about that happening. The paths are defined in an organic way so it's like 1:10000 that it will be an issue. | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 21:19 | comment | added | Geoff Ball | What do you want to happen if there is more than one maximum caliber diameter? | |
| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:25 | history | edited | Ben Hoagland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:18 | history | edited | Ben Hoagland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 14, 2017 at 20:11 | history | asked | Ben Hoagland | CC BY-SA 3.0 |