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Resizing and rotating objects

Resizing and rotating objects - InDesign Tutorial

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Resizing and rotating objects

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- [Instructor] It seems like nothing's ever just the right size on your page, but that's okay. We can resize it. Let's talk about how to scale objects and what kind of gotchas you need to look out for. The first gotcha is staring right at us. See here, when I select that image, I can look up in the scale field here in the control panel or the properties panel, and it says a hundred percent, but I am positive that this image is scaled down, so what's going on? Well, when InDesign scales a frame, it normally sets this value back to a hundred percent, but that's just the frame. The image inside the frame can be different. So remember, you can double click on an image to select the image inside the frame. Now, when we look at the scale feature, we can see it's been scaled to 37.8%. If you double click again or press the escape key on your keyboard, it goes back to the frame, which is a hundred percent. That's just something…

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