there has been some talk lately about the Illustrator window not being Maximized when opening Ai files via double-clicking...I don't think this happens on macs though, but if it does, hope this fixes it too.
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1053059?tstart=0
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1024321?tstart=0
this script attempts to workaround the problem by resizing the window to a "maximum"
before...
after...
please MAXIMIZE the window manually before running the script.
be patient...it will take a couple of seconds to close and re open the application
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