Copy and Paste Selection Into New Document

[kgrand01]

Hello all!

I'm looking for help achieving the following:

Take the currently selected image/object, make a new document with the proportions of the selected element and paste it into the new document. Any help on the syntax or where to find relevant documentation would be appreciated, thank you!

[Manan Joshi · Accepted solution]

You need to first make sure that the selected object is of the correct type and then find its width and height. The next step would be create a new document with the width and height same as the selected object, and the last step would be to copy over the selection to the newly created document. Try the code below which does just as described above.

var sourcePI = app.selection[0]
if(sourcePI.constructor.name == "Rectangle" || sourcePI.constructor.name == "Image")
{
    var height = sourcePI.geometricBounds[2] - sourcePI.geometricBounds[0];
    var width = sourcePI.geometricBounds[3] - sourcePI.geometricBounds[1];
    var newDoc = app.documents.add()
    with(newDoc.documentPreferences)
    { 
          pageHeight = height; 
          pageWidth = width; 
          pagesPerDocument = 1;
    }
    sourcePI.duplicate(newDoc.pages[0]).move([0,0])
}

-Manan

[DBLjan]

Manan, nice work here too!

But to secure the script, and we dont know which type of frame is selected, i would check for most image containing classes, and add Oval and Polygon to
"Rectangle"

[Manan Joshi]

Yeah right, you picked the right idea, now that you understand the crux of the code you can make it more robust for your needs. Good to know that this helped.

[kgrand01]

Thank you Manan! This is perfect. It'll help a lot as I work on cutting out some time preparing image assets for print.

[Laubender]

Hi Manan,

using visibleBounds instead of geometricBounds would improve the script a bit.

In case there are strokes applied to the selected object.

Regards,
Uwe

[Manan Joshi]

Yeah makes sense, thanks for adding your insightful comments Laubender​. kgrand01 you could modify the script by making the changes as suggested by Uwe to make it better.

-Manan