My colleague Rick Borstein asked,
One thing I like about Photoshop is that I can create a new document at the dimensions of the item on the clipboard.
It would be great to have this feature in Illustrator. I am often extracting logos and want to create a new AI file with an artboard of the same dimensions as the clipboard item.
It turns out you can paste an image into Illustrator, then double-click the pasted image using the Artboard Tool. That’ll automatically create the art board at that size. Alternately, you can make an action: Select All > Object menu > Artboards > Fit to Selected Art
[Thanks to Rufus Deuchler & Ton Frederiks]
Fantastic!!!
Great tip! Thanks, John.
Keep up the good work. I love your blog.
This works on groups of items, too.
I made a script that selects the art on every artboard, and resizes the artboard to it. It’s not the most elegant or complicated script but saved me hours of work:
http://www.nimbling.com/blog/2013/11/resize-all-artboards-to-the-art-present-on-themselves/