Scaling Objects

Scaling Objects

Scaling Objects

The Scale command provides several options for enlarging or reducing objects. Scale by a percentage or ratio, horizontally and vertically. You can also scale text and stroke weights when you scale objects.

To Scale an Object:

  1. Select one or more objects.
  2. Choose Object | Scale to open the Scale dialog box.
  3. Select the Scale options.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • Click Apply. The object is scaled, but the dialog box remains open. If you want to change the options you can do so and click Apply again, or you can click Cancel to discard the changes and close the dialog box.
    • Click OK. The object is scaled, and the dialog box is closed.

    5. You can also scale an entire document when you print it, without changing the objects in the document, by specifying a scaling factor in the Print dialog box.

Scale Options

Scale by

Select a method to scale by:

  • Percentage: Specify vertical and horizontal percentages. Scaling an object 150% is the same as increasing the object’s size by a factor of 1.5.
  • Ratio: Specify horizontal and vertical scaling factors as ratios by entering numbers in each set of two boxes; e.g., to scale an object to one-third its original height, enter “1” in the first text box, and “3” in the second.

Proportional

Select this checkbox to scale an object vertically and horizontally by the same amount.

Keep As Group

Select this checkbox to retain the spacing between the selected items when they are scaled.

Scaling

Enter the percentage of horizontal and vertical scaling.

Scale Pen

Select this checkbox to maintain the proportion between an object’s pen size and the overall size of the object.

Scale Text

If one of the selected objects contains text, select Scale Text to change the size of the characters. Otherwise, text remains the same size.

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