Auto-zoom to selected object?

I have a mystery ghost path that I can't find. It shows up in the layer palette. But I can't see it on my artboard. I have Show Bounding Box and Show Edges turned on. I alt/option click the layer to select everything. But there's nothing selected on my artboard. (And my artboard is sized to fit artwork bounds).
Are there any scripts to auto-zoom/scroll the canvas to a selected object? Most 3D apps have a "Frame Object" command that moves and zooms the camera to make the selected object centered on the screen. Is there something like that for Illustrator?

I don't think so. Just lock down anything you want to keep, Select All, and hit delete. The phantom guide should go away.

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Has anyone figured out some magical way to zoom into an object on a page?

This may not be the perfect answer, but it's pretty good in some situations. Smart Scroll has a grab hand fetaure that you may like.
http://download.cnet.com/Smart-Scroll/3000-18487_4-10003983.html
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Hi! Is there any way in Illustrator to zoom to selected object (I want to maximize the selected object to the window)? There is the FitArtboard and the FitAll, but a ZoomToSelected would be great.
Regards / Jimmy

There is sort of very inconvenient work around that might actually impact the feasibility of this as a practical future feature addition to the zoom tool.
Here goes: (it is over the top)
draw an artboard slightly larger or smaller than the art
use the command from the artbard option dialog to fit to artwork bounds or fit to selected art
Set the artboard and hit command 0.
It might be possible to script this or write code as a feature
The problem is right now there is no way to hide an artboard, make it invisible or select it zoom and them hide it once zoomed.
Also no way to assign a keyboard short cut to a script or use a script in an action and then you would be able to assign a keyboard shortcut.
This should now be possible and very handy.
Being able to assign per document keyboard shortcut to zoom into particular artwork on the document level would be even more helpful.
Especially on complex work.

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I am wondering about the possibility of making the zoom-in tool directs to the selected Object or Layer, and how that increase the accessibility with the shortcuts like CTRL+(+).
Regards,

Hi,
you should make "selection objects" which represent your rect.s.
they could have a drawMe(Rectangle source, Rectangle dest) method which would be called in the rendering loop. While source represents the selected area of the orignal image and dest the destination aera which drawMe would actually draw the image into.
Source would get set on mouse up after dragging, dest would be set after the click equal to your drawing area.
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Hello!
Im looking for a way to export a pattern made in Illustrator to auto cad.
I would like to select objects inside a shape based on the shape.
As you can see here i would like to select all the objects inside the blue circle, and delete everything outside of it. I dont want to use a cliping mask as it does not really destory the objects outside the
circle. Any help would be much appreciated.
/Jakob

Jakob,
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Or you may do the destructive deed, with the Clipping Mask selected:
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2) Object>Flatten Transparency, just keep the defaults including 100% Vector,
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I just purchased a refurbrished ELPH 330 and am trying its many settings. In auto mode the camera sometimes seems to select objects (no people in scene) to focus on that aren't logical. For example, if I have a plant on a table with a piece of paper in the foreground or background, it seems to select the paper rather than the plant even if the camera is centered on the plant. I also don't understand why sometimes it has a white focus frame around an object that turns green when the shutter is half presses, and sometimes it doesn't have a white fucus frame and when I press the shutter half way a single or multiple green frames will appear. Without the white focus frame there doesn't appear to be any point or points of focus.
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"A skill is developed through constant practice with a passion to improve, not bought."

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Can I setup Illustrator to zoom in and out from the selected object(s) instead of mouse point on ALT and centre otherwise?

In case it's version CS6 or lower on a Mac, there's a plugin available from worker72a.com
costs 5$ IIRC
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I know this behavior but as this only occurs on high zoom levels it's not a problem form me.
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Zoom to selected

Would it be possible to have a command that would zoom the view to show the objects that are currently selected? It sure would make it easier to navigate to what you're working on regardless of size.

All the time in your case.
I'm working with state maps in Illustrator, and in these, there are some municipalities so small that they can't be selected manually. Also, it's easier to select the object if it's named as the municipality itself and you're doing selection based on a list. But these objects are so small that sometimes they appear as a small dots, even if they are 3 or 4 contiguous objects. If I zoomed in to these and then I select others located outside the zoomed-in area, I have to zoom out, then zoom in on the others. It'd be easier (and faster) to zoom to selected.
I think if we are asking for a feature, such a petition is based on the fact we need such a feature. We've worked around the missing feature and found another way to do the job but we find it difficult or harder or more time consuming than having the feature.
Have I already said the word "feature"?

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I can't tell you how often this feature was requested in the old days. It certainly makes my life much simpler than having to zoom out so I can see enough of an overlapped frame to find the center point to grab, and I know many other users appreciate it too. I don't have a problem with making it a user prefernce, however.
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Unable to remove a host from VMM - Error (2606) Unable to perform the job because one or more of the selected objects are locked by another job.

I am unable to remove a host from my Virtual Machine Manager 2012 R2. I receive the following error:
Error (2606)
Unable to perform the job because one or more of the selected objects are locked by another job.
Recommended Action
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AS
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I would like to write some scripts for randomising the allocation of swatches to adjacent object.
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I want to iterate through the selected objects and randomly assign one of the colours in the swatch document as a fill to each object. It would be great if hidden swatches (they are all small rectangular 'colour chip' filled paths) on page were not included in the reference swatches randomly choosen from.
Iterating the selected objects I can do, but not sure what references I need to use to create an array of swatches to randomly choose from.
I see I can make an array of swatches using the general swatch group from Adobe's CreateSwatchGroup scripts:
JS
var docRef = app.documents.add(DocumentColorSpace.CMYK)
// Create a new SwatchGroup
var swatchGroup = docRef.swatchGroups.add();
swatchGroup.name = "CreateSwatchGroup";
// Get list of swatches in general swatch group
var genSwatchGroup = docRef.swatchGroups[0];
// Collect 5 random swatches from general swatch group and move to new group
var i = 0;
while (i < 5) {
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          var swatchIndex = Math.round(Math.random() * (swatchCount - 1)); // 0-based index
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                    swatchGroup.addSwatch(swatches[swatchIndex]);
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swatches = swatchGroup.getAllSwatches();
// [… etc etc]
AS
tell application "Adobe Illustrator"
activate
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-- Create a new SwatchGroup
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-- Get list of swatches in general swatch group
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-- New swatch group does not allow patterns or gradients
                    if class of color of currentSwatch is not pattern color info and class of color of currentSwatch is not gradient color info then
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-- [… etc etc]
If someone can help me to create the Swatch Array object of swatches loaded from a seperate document (or unique layer) then I think I can work my way to changing the fill on the existing paths (the nations in my map of Europe example).
Would be very cool if I could detect neighbooring paths (nieghbooring nations in my map of Europe example) make sure the colour being assigned is not within a certain hue/CMYK range of the random colour and if it is rechoose random colour. I have no idea how to perform the logic of determining neighbooring paths in an Illustartor script. Anybody?!
I'd prefer Applescript for sake of readiblity and also I'm learning AS ATM. Plus I'm using Script Debugger.app (which is excellent) to work with AS and I can't seem to run JSX scripts from within Extend Script Toolkit 2 (perhaps I need to make my scripts point to Illustrator?)
But Javascript is okay if someone has this covered already :-)

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Hello!
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