Resize individual shapes to a specified size?

Hi there,
Does anyone know of a way, by script, action or other means of resizing an individual shape or path to a specified dimension in inches (or any other unit of measurement) without drawing the shape externally in Illustrator and bringing it back into PS or without opening a new doc at the desired size and copy/pasting back into your first document.
I've never really considered this as a problem to be solved until a co-worker asked me how to do it. The two solutions above were my only replies to this question. Have I missed some other solution that uses ONLY PS CS3?
Thanks,
-JM

That's true, Buko.
But what may disappoint the newcomer is finding out that the resizing will be based on the size of the rectangular bounding box that surrounds the selected shape or path.
So if you have a 100px square that's rotated, the bounding box is going to report a different, larger size. You'd have to measure, check the angle "de-rotate" to perpendicular, and then make a change.
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