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D.M. Procida
18 years ago
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In Keynote 3, can you resize multiple objects?

There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.

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Ben Shimmin
18 years ago
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Post by D.M. Procida
In Keynote 3, can you resize multiple objects?
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Yes, you can.

I love Keynote. I just wish I ever needed to produce presentations.

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D.M. Procida
18 years ago
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Post by Ben Shimmin
Post by D.M. Procida
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Yes, you can.
I love Keynote. I just wish I ever needed to produce presentations.
Be inventive.

One rarely *needs* do to presentations. Make a slideshow out of ideas,
or a diary, or a threatening letter.

Daniele
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Nick Bell
18 years ago
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Post by Ben Shimmin
Post by D.M. Procida
In Keynote 3, can you resize multiple objects?
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Yes, you can.
I love Keynote. I just wish I ever needed to produce presentations.
No you don't.
Bob Wardrope
18 years ago
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Post by D.M. Procida
In Keynote 3, can you resize multiple objects?
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Not quite.
With the objects ungrouped but still all selected, in the Metrics pane,
tick constrain proportions then increase or decrease size x or y.
Reposition the objects then Group.

Bob W
D.M. Procida
18 years ago
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Post by D.M. Procida
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Not quite.
With the objects ungrouped but still all selected, in the Metrics pane,
tick constrain proportions then increase or decrease size x or y.
Reposition the objects then Group.
They all change to the new size at once, if I do that, even if they
weren't the same size to begin with. And text doesn't get resized, of
course.

Daniele
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Do you find yourself annoyed when a household guest leaves soiled
tissues between the cushions of your couch?
Bob Wardrope
18 years ago
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Post by D.M. Procida
Post by Bob Wardrope
Post by D.M. Procida
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Not quite.
With the objects ungrouped but still all selected, in the Metrics pane,
tick constrain proportions then increase or decrease size x or y.
Reposition the objects then Group.
They all change to the new size at once, if I do that, even if they
weren't the same size to begin with. And text doesn't get resized, of
course.
My bad, I was working with identically sized objects.

Bob W
Bob Wardrope
18 years ago
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Post by Bob Wardrope
Post by D.M. Procida
There's no way of doing this in version 2, which is a real pain when you
need to resize a group of items.
Not quite.
With the objects ungrouped but still all selected, in the Metrics pane,
tick constrain proportions then increase or decrease size x or y.
Reposition the objects then Group.
They all change to the new size at once, if I do that, even if they
weren't the same size to begin with. And text doesn't get resized, of
course.
This may work, create a single cell table, make the table the same size
as the group, copy the group, double click on the table to make it
active, paste the group into the cell, in the graphic pane set the table
to stroke none, resize the cell.

This did work for multiple objects which were different in size, but
only for proportional scaling (shift held down whilst dragging to scale).

Bob W
D.M. Procida
18 years ago
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Post by Bob Wardrope
Post by D.M. Procida
They all change to the new size at once, if I do that, even if they
weren't the same size to begin with. And text doesn't get resized, of
course.
This may work, create a single cell table, make the table the same size
as the group, copy the group, double click on the table to make it
active, paste the group into the cell, in the graphic pane set the table
to stroke none, resize the cell.
Diabolical cunning!

Daniele
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Do you find yourself annoyed when a household guest leaves soiled
tissues between the cushions of your couch?
Bob Wardrope
18 years ago
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Post by D.M. Procida
Post by Bob Wardrope
This may work, create a single cell table, make the table the same size
as the group, copy the group, double click on the table to make it
active, paste the group into the cell, in the graphic pane set the table
to stroke none, resize the cell.
Diabolical cunning!
It worked then? The same trick should work in Pages<3.0.

Bob W

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