How to Scale an Image in Adobe InDesign

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Tip 1 - InDesign: Faster way to resize image in frame

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Ouch It Hurts | permalink

I'm using Adobe InDesign (CC 2014) to layout a photo book. I've created a frame, and placed an image inside it. I want to resize the image and drag it around to frame it nicely. I know that you can

For further reading: http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/37509/indesign-faster-way-to-resize-image-in-frame ^[1]

Tip 2 - InDesign Help | Transforming objects

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Martin Krejci | permalink

Tags: Reference,Frames and objects,CC

For further reading: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/transforming-objects.html ^[2]

Tip 3 - InDesign Help | Working with frames and objects

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Elisabeth Carstensen | permalink

Tags: Reference,Frames and objects,CC

For further reading: https://helpx.adobe.com/indesign/using/frames-objects.html ^[3]

Tip 4 - Scaling vs. Resizing in InDesign CS3

Published: 9 years, 1 month(s) ago | Submitted by Mike Komm | permalink

We've been getting a lot of questions from folks who?ve upgraded to CS3, asking what happened to the Transform Content command and how they're supposed to transform a frame separately from its content (or vice versa), in InDesign CS3. Our friend Michael Ninness (the new InDesign Senior Product Manager at Adobe) recently wrote to us with a good explanation of this, so instead of writing it up ourselves, I'm just going to reprint what he wrote (with his permission): Unfortunately, the Help documentation on this matter is a bit confusing. I thought your readers might appreciate an accurate description of the CS3 behavior. The Transform Content menu command is gone in CS3, mainly because...

For further reading: http://indesignsecrets.com/scaling-vs-resizing-in-indesign-cs3.php ^[4]