How can I transform all objects to an absolute height? "transform again" fails.

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    • #96905
      Lala Lala
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      Driving me nuts. I have a bunch of images, different sizes, some portrait some landscape.

      I just want all of them to be 2 inches tall, proportionally, with their frames snapped to their contents.
      But I can’t find a non-tedious way to do this.

      If I type “2 in” in the scaling box for one images, then select the others, and do “transform again individually”…
      it doesn’t respect the “2 in” that I typed, it resizes them as a percentage.
      So for example if the initial image was 4″ tall, and I resized it by typing “2 in” in the scaling box, that’s 50% height right?
      So when I use “transform again individually” it annoyingly doesn’t make them 2 inches tall. It makes them 50% of their original height.

      If I use the other transform coordinates, I can resize all the frames to 2″ tall. And then I can choose “fit content proportionally”. Then I can do ctrl+alt+C to snap the frame to the correct width. But that doesn’t quite work either because it doesn’t handle the portrait mode images the way I want. It expands the frame beyond 2″ height, and maintains the width.

      What’s the smart way to go about this? I’d really hate to separate all portrait and landscape images and then apply transforms because unfortunately many of the images are almost-square, and it’s not easy to tell if they’re slightly tall or slightly wide.

    • #96907
      Lala Lala
      Participant

      Ha, I gave up too early before posting.

      So the sequence I wanted was this:

      1. Select one image –
      2. Type “2 in” in the frame height box.
      3. ctrl+alt+shift+E – fill frame proportionally… forgot about this option.
      4. ctrl+alt+C – fit frame to content.
      5. select all other images.
      6. object – transform again – transform sequence again individually

      Seems awfully clunky, I guess in the future I could do something like a contact sheet but it’s a lot of images and they aren’t
      all together. A logical fix would be to allow someone to select a bunch of images, and if I type “2 in” in the percentage box,
      they get scaled individually to 2 inch height, and if I want the whole group to be 2 inches, I’d have to group them first.

      Another fix would be to have transform again work logically by doing the exact transformation I type.. if I type “2 in” in the percentage box
      and do transform again to other images, they should behave as if I typed “2 in” in their respective height boxes.

    • #96972
      rydesign
      Member

      Check out the equalizer script!!! let’s you do this and oh so so much more. I use it all the time!
      https://www.indiscripts.com/post/2015/04/introducing-equalizer-3-beta-for-indesign-cs4-cs5-cs6-cc

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