At the recent InDesign Conference in Chicago, one of the most common questions at the live Q&A help desk was, “How can I see how much an image has been scaled?” After all, if you scale a graphic frame with an image in it, the Control and Transform palettes always display 100%.
It’s a frustrating problem, but it has a very simple solution: Click on the image with the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow tool). That gives you the image’s scaling percentage, even when the frame itself has reset to 100%.
This article was last modified on December 18, 2021
This article was first published on May 24, 2006
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