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Change the shape of a polygon without effecting the angles?

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    • March 17, 2015 at 7:29 am #73991
      Stacey Horne
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      Designers often use polygons in their design, and often forget to include bleeds on the shape. is there an easy to add bleeds without changing the shape of the polygon.

    • March 17, 2015 at 8:29 am #73993
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      I’m not exactly sure what you mean, but you should be able to just scale it up, right? Like select it and scale it up to 110% or something?

    • March 17, 2015 at 9:31 am #73994
      Stacey Horne
      Participant

      No, scaling will change the overall size, I want to pull the left side without change the size or overall shape. The only way I can see to do this is using the Direct Selection to select the individual points and move them.

    • March 17, 2015 at 10:36 am #73996
      Colleen Shannon
      Member

      View post on imgur.com

      “The only way I can see to do this is using the Direct Selection to select the individual points and move them.”

      This is the way we do it in prepress, and charge $120/hour for the pleasure.

    • March 17, 2015 at 3:01 pm #74002
      Dwayne Harris
      Member

      Like Colleen, I also use the direct selection tool to do it. But in her first example of a “no no,” it would be impossible to get a bleed on that left-hand side. The solution for the top is spot-on.

      We still get jobs from designers that forget about the bleeds, but those are far and few between now (thank God).

      When they are wrong, we have to fix as we are the typesetting house [thus we are responsible in the end] and there is no way in hell we’re going to pay someone $120 an hour to fix something (No offense to you Colleen). :) We will make sure everything is done correctly.

      And sometimes if a particular shape won’t bleed the way that is needed, we convince the designer to let us make it larger, or to reposition the image on the page.

      Sometimes we’ll just bleed off the top and have the left/right side of it in the safe margin (i.e., 3/8 inches from trim)

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