: Strange macro behavior in Illustrator CC I have developed a macro in Illustrator CC (Version 21). Starting from a document of a given size, it deforms it and pastes several copies into another.

@Margaret771

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I have developed a macro in Illustrator CC (Version 21). Starting from a document of a given size, it deforms it and pastes several copies into another. The macro has 27 Actions in total.

This works fine except for one thing: starting from the same template but adding different artwork that fits a fixed predefined zone, the final outputs are shifted from one case to the next or one execution to the next.

I can't see any difference in the sizes of the elements that I am processing and whenever pasting, I am using Paste in Place operations.

Any idea what could explain such discrepancies ?





Update:

I have identified where the sequence goes wrong:


Create a rectangle that covers the whole document,
Select everything,
Make a clipping mask (the rectangle at step 1),
Scale non-uniformly, i.e. 86% on X and 100% on Y.


This is where the problem appears: the centering of the stretched document seems to move unpredictably. I suspect that the mouse position at some moment (before launching the macro) can have an influence.

Update 2:

After deeper observation, I notice that the first time you open a document and process it, the centering is wrong; then if you reopen a second times and more, the centering becomes correct. And then if you open another, the same phenomenon repeats.

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