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Most of the time, we take it for granted that scaling an object in Illustrator is as easy as selecting it and dragging a corner of the object’s bounding box. Hold Shift if you want to keep the original proportions, and that’s all there is to it. But if you rotate an object before scaling it, the bounding box is rotated as well, which can make it a little harder to scale in the way you want by dragging.
Fortunately, it’s easy to restore the bounding box of a rotated object to its original orientation. Just select the object and choose Object > Transform > Reset Bounding Box.
Voila! The object remains rotated, but now you have an unrotated bounding box you can use to scale it.
This article was last modified on March 6, 2017
This article was first published on March 6, 2017
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