Arrange selection in Grid
I would like to be able to select multiple objects.. for example 50 circles. and hit a button to arrange these objects in a Regular Grid of rows and columns. where I can set the QTY per row and column and its spacing and it would move the objects into a grid formation. also the option for a hexagon or Honeycomb grid. would save a lot of time from doing it manually
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Oh yeah, scripts deserve so much more.
As for now Adobe Exchange offers a way to host extensions (in most cases are just glorified wrappers for scripts) — exchange.adobe.com/apps/browse/cc?page=1&product=ILST&q=extensions — but nothing for just scripts. And we have hundreds and hundreds of them, and they cover so much gaps in UX.UV has a separate request for a dedicated script panel, please upvote it as well: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657/suggestions/39903586
Plus there are several decent external solutions, Scripshon Trees being one of them: https://exchange.adobe.com/apps/cc/15873/scripshon-treesBut none for the Exchange for scripts.
Adam, would you mind me promoting your comment into an idea for it? -
Thanks for sharing that script and resource page,. very helpful.
would also be great if Adobe offered illustrator scripts in its marketplace of plugins. and a better built in script manager, to run common scripts easier.. similar to how photoshop handles actions -
Adam, it’d be nice indeed to have a feature like this in Ai natively. Count me in.
Meanwhile I can offer to use a free script to achieve this result — alignObjects by sky-chaser-high :https://github.com/sky-chaser-high/adobe-illustrator-scripts?tab=readme-ov-file#alignObjectsjs
You’d have to specify the tolerance value to define common axes for rows and columns.
Please be warned also that scripts can’t handle opacity masks properly (you can upvote a request to fix this here: http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/908050/suggestions/46727548)
