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Re: How do you scale a picture equally in X and Y in MacDraw or Word?

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From: dgold
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 18:15
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In article <15205@onfcanim.UUCP> terry@onfcanim.UUCP (Terry Higgins) writes:
>In MacDraw it is possible to stretch a picture vertically and/or horizontally
>...
>Is there a way to do this in either application so as preserve the aspect
>ratio of the picture, that is, so that the scale factor is constrained
>to be equal vertically and horizontally?  (I've checked the manual.)

In MacDraw, if you hold down the shift key AFTER mousing down on a handle
on an object, it will retain its proportions as you resize it.


-- 
David Goldsmith
Apple Computer, Inc.
MacApp Group

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Subject: Re: How do you scale a picture equally in X and Y in MacDraw or Word?
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Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 13:15:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 10 13:15:30 1987
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Keywords: scaling, MacDraw, Word