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1. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
P Spier Aug 18, 2011 4:52 AM (in response to Geert DD)Not as far as I know in ID.
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2. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
jmlevy Aug 18, 2011 7:52 AM (in response to Geert DD)Draw a smaller shape, place it over the rotated one, then select them both and apply the “add” pathfinder (not sure of the English term since I have a French version of InDesign)
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3. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
Grant H Aug 18, 2011 8:09 AM (in response to jmlevy)easier to just retype the dimensions
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4. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
Geert DD Aug 18, 2011 10:38 AM (in response to jmlevy)Sounds like a creative workaround. It's not much faster than retyping, I'm afraid, though.
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5. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
Joel Cherney Aug 18, 2011 12:27 PM (in response to Geert DD)It's an interesting question, for sure.
I can imagine a workspace that would behave the way you want, but it'd have to be very limited in the freedom you had to manipulate objects. Or, maybe, what you'd like is a "naturalize" button that would remove the degrees of rotation and change the height & width fields to report accurate-according-to-Cartesian-plane-mapped-onto-paper sizes.
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6. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
John Hawkinson Aug 18, 2011 12:41 PM (in response to Geert DD)How often do you need to do this? If frequently, try posting in the scripting forum, I'm sure we can come up with something.
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7. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
Geert DD Aug 19, 2011 2:07 AM (in response to Joel Cherney)Good point. It depends on the situation which behavior would be preffered.
Illustrator has an option called "Reset bounding box", which would be nice to have in InDesign also as a way to "naturalize" transformations.
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8. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
John Hawkinson Aug 19, 2011 2:12 AM (in response to Geert DD)Many things would be nice.
Can you tell us more about your application for this feature? How do you
use it? Like I said, we can probably produce a scripting workaround,
but I still don't have a good understanding of what you want this for.
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9. Re: How to ‘apply’ transformations?
Geert DD Aug 19, 2011 4:25 AM (in response to John Hawkinson)Well, let's say you've used a small decorative rectangle along the left side of a picture. On another picture you'd then like to use a similar rectangle but on the bottom. What I like to do is alt-drag the vertical rectangle and rotate it to horizontal position for the second picture. All fine. The only problem is when I later want to resize the width or height of the rectangle on the second picture, the width and height values are not corresponding to the visually perceived sizes. Later other copies (of copies) may be rotated again, etc.
All in all, this really is only a minor annoyance. Looking at the "P" in the option bar before changing the values or the reference point helps a lot.






