determine transformations?

[birnerseff]

Hi,

I can use a symbol to add an instance to a page and then apply a transform to it. Is it possible to query the the transformation matrix from javascript?

Regards

Wolfgang

[Silly-V]

Symbols don't seem to have a matrix property, but you can try to use the BBAccumRotation tag, as described throughout this thread:

How reset the rotation of a PageItem (or access it's matrix at least) ?

[birnerseff]

Hi,

many thanks for pointing me in this direction. It seems that rotation and probably scaling can be deduced from that tag value. However, a simple mirror operation does not leave any traces (the width is still positive)

On the other hand, it seems that I can change a symbolItem's symbol while preserving the matrix. I hope that I can use this property to solve my problem

Regards

Wolfgang

[Silly-V]

If you are wanting to replace items inside a transformed symbol, you may be able to accomplish this via Envelope Distort as well.