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Well it’s time to work on the logo: it’s really big and we would like it to be aligned the top part of the card. There are several ways to resize an object or frame.
When an object is selected, for example, click on the logo, and you can see a red rectangle outline. This doesn’t affect the object properties but only shows that it is selected. There are little red square handles at each corner and at the middle of each side. If the mouse gets over one of these handles, the cursor will change to a double arrow. If you press the left mouse button when the pointer is on one of them and then move the pointer, you’ll see the size changing according to the mouse movements. Just release the button when you’re done.
While resizing the frame an information box appears near the pointer and displays the new width. You will notice that the proportions of the object are not kept, and that the logo is modified. To avoid this, just press the Ctrl key while dragging the handles and you’ll see that the logo will be scaled proportionally.
As an alternative, you can use the Width and Height fields of the XYZ tab in the Properties Palette. If you need to keep the ratio, be sure that the chain button at the right-hand side of the field is activated.
You can set the size in three ways:
Another way to resize objects is by using the keyboard. It’s useful when you’re typing and you need some extra space to put some more text, and that don’t want to put your hands on the mouse. In this case, just:
If you do some tests, you’ll find that each arrow controls a side: the left arrow affects the size by moving the left-hand side, the right arrow affects the right-hand side, and so on. You can see that with this method the shape can only grow.
Since the past two or three years, you might have noticed that shapes are being used in their pure form. For example, check this easy sample and try to reproduce it in the best way you can: copy-paste, moving, and resizing are all you’ll need to know.
Scaling objects—what can be different here from resizing? Once more, it’s on Text Frames that the difference is more evident. Compare the results you can get:
The difference is simple: in the top example the content has been scaled with the frame, and in the second only the frame is scaled. So it’s scaling the content. You can scale a Text Frame (with its consent) by pressing the Alt key while resizing with the mouse. The Alt key applies, as always, while the mouse is pressed during the resizing movement.
So did you see something missing in our card?
Let’s say that our company name is “GraphCo” as in the previous image and that we want to add it to the card.
Most of the time, you will use simple resizing instead of scaling. When you want the text to match some area and you don’t want to play indefinitely with the font size setting, you may prefer to use the scaling functionality.
Using the scale options makes it very easy to resize the frame and the text visually without trying to find the best font size in pt, which can sometimes be quite long.
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