Adobe InCopy CC 2015 - Manual (Page 90)

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• When placed over the bounding box handle of an inline graphic, it changes to the resize arrow to indicate that
dragging will resize the graphic.
• When placed over a graphics frame or the top-level container of nested frames, it changes to the object select icon
to indicate that you can select the graphic or nested frame under the pointer. You cannot select the frame itself.
• When placed over a text frame, it changes to the I-beam to indicate a text insertion point.
Set Position tool options
When using the Position tool to move a graphic, you can hold down the mouse button for a few seconds to display a
dynamic graphics preview (a ghosted-back image) of any part of the image that is outside the frame. You can control
the display and delay of the preview.
1 Double-click the Position tool in the toolbox.
2 From the Show Masked Portion of Image menu, select the rate at which the entire image will appear while dragging,
or select to turn it off entirely.
Transform graphics
You can use commands to move, scale, rotate, and shear graphics.
Move a graphic
1 Make sure the frame with the desired object is checked out to you, and then select the object using the Position tool
.
2 Choose Object > Transform > Move.
3 In the Move dialog box, do one of the following:
• Enter the horizontal and vertical distances that you want the graphic to move. Positive values move the object
down and to the right of the x axis; negative values move the object up and to the left.
• To move an object a precise distance and angle, enter the distance and angle for the move. The angle you enter is
calculated in degrees from the x axis. Positive angles specify a counterclockwise move; negative angles specify a
clockwise move. You can also enter values between 180° and 360°; these values are converted to their
corresponding negative values (for example, a value of 270° is converted to –90°).
4 Do one of the following:
• To preview the effect before you apply it, select Preview.
• To move the object, click OK.
Scale a graphic
1 Make sure the frame with the desired object is checked out to you, and then select the object using the Position tool
.
2 Choose Object > Transform > Scale.
3 In the Scale dialog box, make sure the Constrain Proportions icon is selected if you want to preserve the relative
height and width of the object. Deselect this icon if you want to scale the X and Y values separately, which may result
in the image being skewed.
4 Enter the horizontal and vertical scale values as either percentages (such as 90%) or distance values (such as 6p).
The scale values can be negative numbers.