{"id":850,"date":"2013-11-17T22:49:58","date_gmt":"2013-11-17T21:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nimbling.com\/blog\/?p=850"},"modified":"2013-11-18T01:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T00:10:19","slug":"illustrator-flip-selection-horizontal-or-vertical","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/illustrator-flip-selection-horizontal-or-vertical\/","title":{"rendered":"Illustrator: Flip selected object Horizontally or Vertically"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, illustrator offers a really nice &#8220;reflect&#8221; tool. But I prefer using <em>command + Shift H<\/em> or <em>command + Shift V<\/em> and don&#8217;t care much for the &#8220;paste in place&#8221; I replace, as I&#8217;m happy with paste in front and -back.<\/p>\n<p><code>tell application \"Adobe Illustrator\"<br \/>\n\tif (count page items in document 1) > 0 then<br \/>\n\t\tset selectedItems to selection<br \/>\n\t\tset scaleMatrix to get scale matrix horizontal scale 100.0 vertical scale -100.0<br \/>\n\t\ttransform every item in selectedItems using scaleMatrix<br \/>\n\tend if<br \/>\nend tell<\/code><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m using them with the wonderful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.red-sweater.com\/fastscripts\/\" title=\"Fastscripts\">Fastscripts<\/a>, by red sweater, since it takes a very sane approach to scoping (limiting to intended application) the installed scripts.<\/p>\n<p>Grab the scripts <a href=\"http:\/\/nimbling.com\/Downloads\/Flipscripts.zip\" title=\"HERE\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, illustrator offers a really nice &#8220;reflect&#8221; tool. But I prefer using command + Shift H or command + Shift V and don&#8217;t care much for the &#8220;paste in place&#8221; I replace, as I&#8217;m happy with paste in front and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/illustrator-flip-selection-horizontal-or-vertical\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ui-customization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nimbling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}