x and y point resizing issues

[Philip Ronan]

Marroon wrote:

> Can anyone help me here?
>
> With Quark (that greatly inferior product), when you resize a document,
> all the elements stay on the x and y zero points. With Indesign, it
> just keeps the elements in the middle.
>
> How can I resize it so that it stays to the X and y point? Is there a
> plug-in available?
>

Go to the "Transform" tab, and click the top left box in the square grid so
it looks like this:

[X] [ ] [ ]

[ ] [ ] [ ]

[ ] [ ] [ ]

Then do your resizing.

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[bahamascuba]

The grid that Philip refers to below is good for resizing objects on
the page, but what about resizing a DOCUMENT? When the objects (e.g. a
full-page ad) are on an 8.5 x 11 inch document, and then we need to
resize the document to 11 x 17 inch, is there any way to keep the
objects in the upper right corner of the page... rather than go to the
middle of the page? The transform tool referred to below doesn't seem
to do the trick.

[Philip Ronan]

bahamascuba wrote:

> The grid that Philip refers to below is good for resizing objects on
> the page, but what about resizing a DOCUMENT? When the objects (e.g. a
> full-page ad) are on an 8.5 x 11 inch document, and then we need to
> resize the document to 11 x 17 inch, is there any way to keep the
> objects in the upper right corner of the page... rather than go to the
> middle of the page? The transform tool referred to below doesn't seem
> to do the trick.
>

Really? It works for me...

Just select everything (command-A) before you resize.

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[XyonN of Xy]

On 2005-03-02 11:30:23 +0100, Philip Ronan <invalid@invalid.invalid> said:

> bahamascuba wrote:
>

>> The grid that Philip refers to below is good for resizing objects on
>> the page, but what about resizing a DOCUMENT? When the objects (e.g. a
>> full-page ad) are on an 8.5 x 11 inch document, and then we need to
>> resize the document to 11 x 17 inch, is there any way to keep the
>> objects in the upper right corner of the page... rather than go to the
>> middle of the page? The transform tool referred to below doesn't seem
>> to do the trick.
>>

>
> Really? It works for me...
>
> Just select everything (command-A) before you resize.

What i do is I group the stuff, press command+6 after the page resize
and type in the right coördinates. Works fine. It took me a while to
find the apple-button(command)+6 function. I was used to a keycommand
in quark to jump the cursor to the transform palette. command+6 does it
in indesign for me :)

Godspeed,
XyonN