The latest Beta Build 29.3.0.100 offers Area Calculation using Measure Tool, now with extended support for compound paths and overlapping objects.

• Select the objects in your artwork you want to calculate the area for.
• Select the Measure Tool from the Toolbar.
• The calculated area will be displayed in the Info panel, shown automatically.
• Shift + Click on a segment in the existing selection to remove/add it to area calculation.
• Configure measurement options by accessing the flyout menu of the panel. You can customize units, precision, and scale to suit your requirements.

We would like to hear your feedback on the new capabilities — please try it out and let us know in the comments.

The latest Beta Build 29.3.0.2 now offers a way to calculate the area, using the existing Measure Tool.

• Select the Measure Tool from the Toolbar.
• Click on a closed path to calculate its area (for now it has to have a fill, so the area is actually ink coverage)
• The calculated area will be displayed in the Info panel, shown automatically.
• To calculate the total area of multiple paths, hold Shift and click.
• Configure measurement options by accessing the flyout menu of the panel. You can customize units, precision, and scale to suit your requirements.

The team is looking forward to hear the feedback on this new feature — please try it out and make comments.

Hi everyone! Thank you for your feedback so far.

As we make progress, we wanted to hear your thoughts regarding the intended functionality of this solution. We are sharing two scenarios forproposed behavior of this functionality, please review these and let us know your feedback:

Scenario #1: The area calculation will only consider the path geometry of an object and not include the stroke weight as part of the computed area. To calculate the area of the stroke, the object can be Expanded so that a separate compound path is created for the stroke.

Scenario #2: Appearance-altering effects (e.g., Drop Shadows, Gaussian Blurs) that do not modify the underlying path geometry will not influence the area calculation. We will continue to calculate the area of the actual closed path.

We have also attached a visual reference for these scenarios to this post. Please let us know your thoughts!

The team has started working on this request. As a first step they want to understand the requirements correctly and build the right feature set based on the feedback gathered.

If you are willing to discuss area calculation in a call session, block a time slot here: https://outlook.office.com/bookwithme/user/c1b7ecea1cbd42a2a7068cfeb7861bdd@adobe.com/meetingtype/Fn8tXNebh0eyv4xTnvQ-3Q2?anonymous&ep=mlink