: Illustrator scripting: resize that works like transform tool in illustrator I'm writing a script for Illustrator CS5 to resize my artwork (and artboards and a whole lot of other stuff in a batch).

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I'm writing a script for Illustrator CS5 to resize my artwork (and artboards and a whole lot of other stuff in a batch).

I'm having severe issues with the javascript functions resize() and transform().
When I scale my object manually inside Illustrator (double clicking on the scale tool or using the transform dialog), I can select "Scale Stroke and Effects" and scaling looks fine.

I scale this down to 20%:

:

And I get this (which is fine):



Now, when I use the resize() or transform() functions in Illustrator's scripting I get this:



The simple script to reproduce:

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var item = doc.pageItems[0];
item.resize(
20.0, // x
20.0, // y
true, // changePositions
true, // changeFillPatterns
true, // changeFillGradients
true, // changeStrokePattern
true , // changeLineWidths
undefined); // scaleAbout


I have tried playing around with the parameters to resize() but nothing comes close to the transform dialog in Illustrator.

The original .ai file can be downloaded from here.

So my question is: How can I get the same effect from javascript as I can from using the built in transform dialog ?

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