Illustrator Scripting :: How To Calculate ExportPNG24 Scalefactor

Oct 29, 2013

I need to export a Illustrator icon in various different resolutions e.g. 16x16, 64x64, 256x256 etc.
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The scale factor is calculated by this simple formular:
 
var bounds = item.visibleBounds;
var width = bounds[2] - bounds[0];
var scaleFactor = 100.0 * desiredPixelWidth / width;
 
The resulting images are correct for small images from 16px to 512px but for larger images the resulting images are too big:
 
desiredWidth resultingWidth1024102520482050409641006000600680008008(the calculated value for width is 512.5)
 
I have to multiply the scaleFactor with a correctionFactor of ~0.999 to get correct results:
 
var bounds = item.visibleBounds;
var width = bounds[2] - bounds[0];
var scaleFactor = 99.9 * desiredPixelWidth / width;
 
Why the correctionFactor has to be applied and what the correct value is.
 
Windows 7 64Bit / Adobe Premium CS5.5

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