Padding When Fitting Artboard To A Shape?

Question

I could have sworn a while back that I had stumbled across an option within Illustrator (I'm currently using CC) to specify a certain amount of "padding" to leave around an object when cropping it. I can't recall if I saw this in the Artboard settings, in the Save For Web settings or somewhere else - if at all. Does anyone know if this is possible within Illustrator. In other words, if I draw a shape and want to crop the artboard to fit the dimensions of the shape, plus leave an extra 25px of padding around the shape.

Answer 1

I wrote a script for that, but you could also record an action and assign a hot key to it, that would the faster
first, grab a couple of shapes, group them and
- go to Effect->Convert to Shape->Rectangle...
- enter the desired padding amount
- drag this group to the Graphics Styles Panel
now select some art and record an action that will apply this graphic style to your selection and resize the artboard + padding. Give it a shortcut key.
- stop recording.