An option to ignore strokes when using Fit to Artwork Bounds or Fit to Selected Art commands
Illustrator now always fits the current artboard respecting strokes and raster effects, as if the 'Use Preview Bounds' option is on.
However, disabling this option does not change the behaviour 'Fit to Artwork Bounds' or 'Fit to Selected Art' commands — strokes and shadows are still considered to be the bounds to fit.
This is not what a user wants in many cases, and geometric bounds are preferred instead.
We need Illustrator to either respect 'Use Preview Bounds' option — as Symbols do — or have another set of option for fitting command, to separately control strokes and effects.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
shared this idea
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A related report:
Don’t include the stroke of the object when creating an object-sized artboard with Artboard tool
http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/38239972 -
Joel Swan commented
Currently when choosing "fit to artwork" on a dieline in illustrator it will fit the artboard to the outer edge of the dieline, resulting in incorrect dimensions. My 5x8 dieline is suddenly in a 5.0139x8.0139 artboard, throwing off my output file.
It would be great to add a checkbox option to allow the artboard to match either the outer stroke dimensions OR path dimensions for accurate proofing.
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I wrote a small script to workaround it.
Watch a GIF to see the difference between the native fit and my fit method.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/j5zgcioilj8x9o4/Fit%20Artboard%20to%20Selection%20Geometric.jsx
