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Article #14400Re: How do you scale a picture equally in X and Y in MacDraw or Word?
From: mrh
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 23:46
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 23:46
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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.)
>
> Terry Higgins {watmath,musocs,micomvax}!onfcanim!terry
I don't know whether this works in WORD but the shift key works in
MacDraw to constrain the selection. In MacDraw you first have to press the
mouse button on the handle THEN hold down the shift key, THEN resize the
picture. I remember looking forever in the manual and never finding...
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!decwrl!labrea!Shasta!mrh From: mrh@Shasta.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: How do you scale a picture equally in X and Y in MacDraw or Word? Message-ID: <1255@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> Date: Tue, 10-Feb-87 18:46:44 EST Article-I.D.: Shasta.1255 Posted: Tue Feb 10 18:46:44 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 11-Feb-87 23:44:36 EST References: <15205@onfcanim.UUCP> Organization: Stanford University Lines: 20 Keywords: scaling, MacDraw, Word Summary: use shift key for constraint