Resizing artboard

I am trying to set up a new artboard in Illustrator CS 4 with the dimensions of 2.375 X 3.625 but Illustrator keeps rounding the numbers up to 2.38 x 3.63. How do I keep Illustrator from rounding numbers? Can I extend the decimal places somewhere? Can I turn this feature off?
Thanks so much in advance
Jenny
CS4
Win XP Pro

Really? I work in CS3 so can't see this for myself. In CS3, it will show up to 4 places in the document setup window (good thing I never work in 32nds!) When it rounds though, it's only rounding the number that's shown - it's not changing the size of the document (at least in CS3) In CS3, there is not a way to adjust the number of decimal places.
Seems like they took a step backwards in lowering the decimal places shown though... I wonder what the rationale was there...

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first of all: I am NOT referring to the dimension boxes on the toolbar.
I'm learning Illustrator CS6 and I've got a document with some artboards. I select the Artboard tool and resize the artboard without any issues. However, I've seen lots of videos where a little box shows while the artboard is being resized and it shows X:... Y:...
I don't have that. Hope this is making sense.
I have googled this extensively but no luck.
Is it a Mac-specific feature? I'm using Windows 7.
How do I turn it on?
thx
David

Feature is on both Win & Mac
View >> Smart Guides
You probably have the defaults so should work. If not edit your smart guide preferences and add checkmarks I have.

Resize artboards should use shift/alt modifiers like the scale tool

Expected behaviour would be to scale artboards with shift to constrain proportions or alt to resize from center like the bounding box or scale tool.
Thanks!
Felix

+1

Any way to resize artboard and have it adjust the coordinates so bottom left corner is 0,0?

That may have been too wordy of a question.
I've noticed that when I resize the artboard of my document the coordinates don't update with it. 0,0 which for me is always good in the bottom left corner now becomes some spot in the region. The bottom left corner becomes -344,-555. This doesn't work for me.
So far when I'm faced with this I just make a new document with the new size I want, but it gets old.

Larry G. Schneider wrote:
Since Ai is (or rather was) based on the page description language Postscript, it started with the convention from math where the 0,0 is the lower left corner of the X-Y quadrant system to keep both numbers positive.
Thanks for the explanation
Which is why X being on the L/R axis is always on the left corner anyway... And Y being on the Top to Bottom is always on the bottom...PIA
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Y: -108 px
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its possible, but someone who can actually script will have to fill in the gaps here. this script accesses the artboard size:
app.activeDocument.artboards[0].artboardRect = [0,0,0,0];
i'm pretty sure the numbers are coordinates for the positions of the corners, but exactly how to translate that into a specific WxH i'm not sure. but if you can work that part out, you can record the script as part of an action (insert menu item), and then use the batch options to target a folder.

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Hello!
This code works perfectly in Illustrator CS6 for Mac:
function resizeArtboard() {
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It works like the menu option "Shrink artboard to fit content".
However, running this script in Illustrator CC for Windows, the result is different: the content is enlarged to fit the artboard instead.
How can I solve this?
Thanks in advance!
/Måns

It turns out I was wrong: this function did work. However, when I then saved the file as an SVG, Illustrator ignored the document proportions. To correct this, I had to set the export option preserveEditability = true (of all things ...). Apparently it's a feature of Illustrator CC to not include the document proportions in SVG files by default.

Resize doc in Illustrator CS4 js

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I need to resize existing document. It looks like I found not quite correct code, because it's not working, but I couldn't find anything else:
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Thank you for your help.
Yulia

Hi Yulia,
try this following script:
#target illustrator
var docRef = app.activeDocument;
var mmTOpt=0.3528; //coeficiant
var inTOmm=0.03937; // coeficiant
var W=6.125/inTOmm/mmTOpt; // converting point to inch
var H=4.125/inTOmm/mmTOpt; // converting point to inch
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Like as said Muppet Mark, we can't directly assign a new size to already created document, but we can change artboard size (and after we can use cropBox command if need). * tested on CS4
Script description:
first, illustrator works in Point to inch or millimeter, we need to convert to point. (in script i shown each step, but of course we can reduce to one step)
Second, (it's heavy for me to understand bounds attribute..but it seems it's work like [X,Y2,X2,Y] where X2=X+Width and Y2=Y+height), i would put a new pathItem centered with each other Items.. myDoc.visibleBounds return [X,Y2,X2,Y] as if all items it was grouped.
Third, resize artboard as created pathItem, and delete it
Another way should be :
1) create a new doc this good size
2) copy all items of previous document on new
Cyao, art.chrome

How do you resize multiple artboards in Illustrator at the same time?

Hi,
This is a question that has been bugging me for a while. I'm currently on CS6 but I'm looking for a solution that can also work on CS5 for a co-worker.
Having multiple artboards has been established since CS4 and I have yet to see an official way of resizing multiple artboards, if anything there should at least be a plug-in.
As great of a feature it is, it seems a little short sited. If one has multiple artboards one should be able to manage multiple artboards, right?
I totally love having multiple artboards but I should be able to resize and manage multiple artboards as well.
This is great for building icon sets but how can I resize the set all at once?
I was considering trying to do an action but odds are I still would have to select an artboard one by one to do which doesn't save much time if you have like 30 artboards to apply this to.
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I'm well aware of the solution that is displayed here:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1093465
Which is a script. I'm not sure where I'm supposed to put it.

mec_os wrote:
you can resize the artwork on export. no need to draw it to size.
Unfotunately when I looked into that does not seem to be the case. However I can resize when I "Save for Web" but that appears to only work for one artboard at a time. I can Save As or Export multipe artboards but not adjust the size. Believe me I would be happy if I could resize multiple artboards upon export but apparently that is not an option.
mec_os wrote:
you can put the scripts in illustrator's folder/presets/en_us(or whatever localization you have)/scripts. you can then access them in illustrator from the menubar/File/Scripts/
there are also applications that will let you execute scripts with assigned shortcuts. i believe sparks is free.
Thanks for pointing out the location.
Do I save it as a txt file or something else?
(I was guessing that I would copy the script into notepad or something)

Is there a plug in to resize the canvas size in Illustrator CS6? Not the artboard, the canvas size

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- fix alt-scroll bug in pixel preview (viewport jumps to unpredicted locations)
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MINOR TWEAKS:
- recolor artwork on the fly when dragging sliders in the color panel (not after releasing mouse button)
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- NORMAL scrollbars
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- chahge value of numeric fields on hover and drag (not on click and drag, like in Photoshop)
- when resizing, snap objects to their original size and position even when snapping is turned off
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- make hexadecimal field in color picker dialog 3 pixels wider so that all 6 characters fit in it
- make status bar remember my choise of what to show
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- gradient stroke
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Also SVG support back to Bridge.
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Can you post a visual of what you're trying to do?
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Resizing and scaling all content to the artboard

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I have about 150 files of various sizes. They all have different content and need to be resized to 5cm x 5cm (2.5in x 2.5in) so they can be compatible with an online system of mine.
I have succesfully made a script that opens every file in the directory with the files, then resizes their artboard to my required size. Thats part of the manual labor taken out of the job.
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