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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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- 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, when I select this image and I look up in the Control Panel or in the Properties Panel, this says the scaling is 100% but I am positive that this image has been scaled down. So, what's going on here? Well, when InDesign scales a frame it almost always sets this value back to 100%. But that is just a frame. The image inside the frame is not necessarily 100%. So remember, you can double-click on an image to select the image inside the frame. The image inside the frame has been scaled down to about 37%. Then if you double click on the image again or just press the Escape key on your keyboard, it goes back to the frame and you can see that that is set to 100%. This is just something…

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