Select Same / Larger / Smaller Size
The Select Same Color, Appearance, Opacity is quite helpful. Add a new option for Size. The area size of the current selected element would be calculated and then used to find other similar objects within the document that meet that same area size.
A tolerance up or down or range could be provided as well. It would also be helpful to offer a setting for "Select Anything this size and smaller/larger".
This kind of feature would be very helpful when attempting to clean up an illustration generated from a live traced sketch.
Nathaniel
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There is a free script by John Wundes you can use:
https://github.com/johnwun/js4ai/blob/master/SelectPathsBySize.jsxIt has some minor flaws, like units as pixels only, no preview, and generally slow speed...
But it also has many options and it allows to make a selection you want anyway. -
Darrin Michelson commented
In my business's work flow we engrave designs into granite. Unlike print images our designs have a hard limit our artwork cannot go below. This includes the minimum height and width of a given path, as well as the space between objects. There's a script file available on the net that can accomplish something roughly equivalent to this but it's not supported and every new version of Illustrator threatens to break it.
A feature like this in illustrator where object scale and spacing could be a selection attribute would be very helpful!
