SCALE and REFLECT using selected REFERENCE POINT
Add the ability to SCALE and REFLECT objects using the REFERENCE POINT specified in the CONTROL PANEL
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It always puzzled me why the pivot for these gets always placed in the middle (and does not get saved — there is a separate popular request for this: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-feature-requests/suggestions/31518439-rotation-center-point-remains-with-objects-and-gro)...
So instead I went the route of automating the reference point setting with hotkeys (again, there is a request: https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/32403805-make-setting-reference-point-hotkeyable) and using Flip actions, bound to F-keys.
This solves the problem with Reflect for me, and the scaling I do numerically, using basic math in Width and Height fields in Transform... but this limits me me to fields. If I want to use tools — I still have to enable Smart Guides, disable Snap to Grid (they don’t work together, and there is a request to fix that — won’t give another link here), and click to dfine the pivot. Tedious!
But how would you solve the problem of switching between too modes — the 'same as the reference point' and 'center' (which is still needed in a lot of cases), and on the fly?
