Suggestions Illustrator script to scale vehicles images to full size.

[myront]

draw a rectangle over a known size i.e. fuel door, door width, magnet etc. add the image to the selection, run the macro and input what the real size should be. I'll give you hint, image must be embedded not linked, but you'll get a warning in case you forget.
Open the attached in notepad, save to C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Illustrator 2026\Presets\en_US\Scripts as (whatever you want to call it) with .jsx extension. I call it Scale Photo.jsx

 

[Boudica]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you need a script to enlarge something in illustrator?

1:20 scale template: enlarge it to 2000%. Now it's full size.

 

[WildWestDesigns]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you need a script to enlarge something in illustrator?

1:20 scale template: enlarge it to 2000%. Now it's full size.

Main reason to script anything is to automate the process, it handles things better when dealing with a lot of files versus the manual way. If "you" only deal with this once every blue moon, probably not worth it. If dealing with this many times a day/week, yea probably worth.

I have one that runs Inkscape headless (no GUI showing) that iterates over files in a certain directory, exports the stitch files and the stitch charts, zips/tars them up and deletes the original individual export files for cleanup. If I was only doing this for one or two files a week, no biggie. Dealing with this on a larger scale, that's no bueno the manual way. Seconds/minute via script versus an hour or so manually.

 

[Johnny Best]

You can alsao use transform to put the actual size in, also I do what Boudica to scale down or up for artwork.

 

[ikarasu]

Maybe I'm missing something, but why do you need a script to enlarge something in illustrator?

1:20 scale template: enlarge it to 2000%. Now it's full size.

I think this is for making your own templates, not 1:20 ones you find online.

That's why you measure something like a door... Put a square over it, then run the script.... Tell it how big the square is and it blows everything up to scale.