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: Illustrator Action - resizing a rectangle Many, many times a day I have to add .5 to the width and length of a clipping mask to add bleed for printing. I really want to make this a key

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Many, many times a day I have to add .5 to the width and length of a clipping mask to add bleed for printing. I really want to make this a key stroke or at least a action button. so I can click on the mask then the button.

The issue is when I record the action it doesn't record +.5 it records "Scale width to 5555 pt"

Is there a way to get around this or is this a script?

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@Yeniel278

Script could look like this.
#target illustrator

var sel = activeDocument.selection;
var RU = activeDocument.rulerUnits;
activeDocument.rulerUnits = RulerUnits.Points;

for(var i = 0; i < sel.length; i++){
if(sel[i].typename == "PathItem"){
sel[i].width+=0.5;
}
}
activeDocument.rulerUnits = RU;


Making this a shortcut and a button that will be easily accessible from session to session, is another ballgame... It can be done but its quite convoluted.

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