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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 up here? If I select this image, the Control panel or the Properties panel says that the scaling is 100%, but I am positive that this image has been scaled down. So what's going on? Well, when InDesign scales a frame, it normally sets the value back to 100%. 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. See that? I can see that the image has actually been scaled down to 37.8%. Then, if you double-click the image again or press the Escape key, it goes back to the frame, which is 100%. That's just something you need to be aware of. Most of the time when I want to scale an object or a group of objects, I just use the Selection tool…

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