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BlackBox
06-27-2005, 09:10 PM
There's this thing i've always tried to figure out in Illustrator but never have.
I would think there's a way to resize say an object using the transform box so when you type in one side it resizes the other.
I.E. a box 10X10, you type in 5 and the other side goes to 5 too..instead what happens is it will be 5 by ten unless i manually do it.
just to the right of the W & H boxes is a little chain icon. Click it once and you link the two figures to make it proportional. Click it again to un-link them.
BlackBox
06-27-2005, 09:38 PM
oh man!!!! i always saw that link and just assumed it was broken since it was there but not working. i never thought to click on it!
Thanks Kool!
No problem, I saw it for a long time too before it occured to me to click it :D
PrintDriver
06-28-2005, 12:54 AM
You can change one dimension in the transform box and type command+return to do the same thing. In all versions.
Broacher
06-28-2005, 02:41 PM
>>You can change one dimension in the transform box and type command+return<<
And for Windows folks-- it's Ctrl-Enter (natch).
To resize as a copy of the element: Ctrl-Alt-Enter
In CorelDraw (for that other person out there who uses it) the only control is the lock, unlock proportional icon. It'd be neat if they followed Adobe's lead here-- though I consider that it's balanced by allowing the user to enter more different kinds of units as well as more than one operand in the entry. As for dupes-- that's always a numeric pad + away anyhow.