Comments on: Scaling Effects

By: Mike Rankin

Mike Rankin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 14:55:50 +0000

Anders-

I don’t know why the shadow and glow behave differently. I suppose it points to the fact that the underlying math used to create those effects is somehow different from the other effects.

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:48:00 +0000

Why is the outher shadow not supported?

By: stacy

stacy — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 16:44:29 +0000

YAHOO! thanks for this post!

By: Daniel Rodney

Daniel Rodney — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:35:58 +0000

Looks like my post was messed up because I used less than and greater than signs which were stripped.

So the keystrokes are:
Cmd (less than) [Ctrl on PC]
Cmd (greater than) [Ctrl on PC]

By: Daniel Rodney

Daniel Rodney — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:33:49 +0000

@Roland: Is there an easy way to scale multiple objects simultaneously?

Here are some ways. With the objects selected (do not need to be grouped), enter in a scale amount in the Control panel (or just click into the scale field and press Up/Down arrow to incrementally scale it up/down.

In InDesign CS2 and CS4 (but not CS3) you can press:
Cmd to enlarge (Ctrl on PC)
(Add the option/alt key to the above keystroke to change the scaling from 1% to 5% at a time. This keystroke does work in CS3. I think it’s just the smaller scaling that stopped working in CS3, but was put back in CS4.)

Those are just some of the ways off the top of my head.

By: Skemp

Skemp — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:25:39 +0000

@Roland: I use LayoutZone from Martinho da Gloria (automatication.com) to quickly convert the objects to a placed InDesign file, scale this, and then convert back to editable objects.

Works a treat.

By: Harbs

Harbs — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:56:06 +0000

@Roland: Try Object –> Transform Again/Transform Again Individually

By: Roland

Roland — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:50:36 +0000

On the subject of scaling: is there an easy way to scale multiple objects simultaneously?
Grouping, scaling and ungrouping messes up the objects’ distribution across layers, but right now that’s the only way I can think of doing that, and unfortunately, I have to scale multiple objects quite frequently…

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:06:26 +0000

I’ve never really paid attention to these options for effects in InDesign.
Thanks for the info!
I’m going to experiment that right now…