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Transformations - InDesign Tutorial

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Transformations

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We already talked about transformations in previous chapters but I would like to repeat these and make sure you know where to find things. The easiest way to do transformations is to use the properties panel or use the dedicated panel which you would find in the window menu under object and layout transform. Once you have an object selected like this image you will be able to see its coordinates so we can see the x and y value for its center point currently but we can change the reference point to indicate the top left corner's position in this case in the document or the bottom right corner so it's always going to change depending on your reference point and you can also see the width and the height of this object so we have these two values here and of course we can make changes to these however if you ever use the transform settings I would recommend to first constrain the proportions by linking them together that way you are not going to distort the graphic or image so if I change…

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