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I need to place a series of links at same scale.

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    • February 2, 2012 at 4:17 pm #61589
      RollDotHome
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      I am working on a project where I need to bring numerous links of varying dimensions (Illustrator files in this case) into InDesign at the same scale so that they are proportional to each other.

      I have set picture boxes with live captions attached and ideally would like to bring every link in at 5% and then fit box to content (cmnd+alt+C). Is this possible?

      To much mileage having to keep going to menu bar and adjuting the percentage!

    • February 2, 2012 at 7:42 pm #61590
      Bob Rubey
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      Take a look at the Scale Graphics Script from in-tools.com, it may do the job: https://in-tools.com/article/sc…..cs-script/

    • February 3, 2012 at 5:15 pm #61592
      RollDotHome
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      Script is interesting but doesnt quite meet my specific problem.

      • I have a master page with four picture boxes that require the contents to be linked in at 5% and two picture boxes that require the contents to be lined in at 10%

      • This master page is to be used hundreds of times and I have potential several thousand individual links to bring in.

      • The pages need populating one at a time and links cannot be bought into InDesign en masse and rescaled together.

      Therefore it seems that the scale of the placed content should be set as an attribute of the picture box so that anything linked into it comes in at the pre-assigned scale (that the frame also automatically resizes to the content and maintain it's link to the live caption would be a bonus)

      Looks like it's going to be a bit of a repetetive task to say the least! Is there any commercial plug in that anyone is aware of that preforms this task?

      BTW This would still be a very useful script if it remembered ones settings instead of resetting everytime it's used…

    • February 3, 2012 at 6:17 pm #61593
      RollDotHome
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      Someone kindly solved it for me: https://forums.adobe.com/messag…..81#4185081

      Three cheers ;) ;) ;)

      Save me a hell of a lot of work!

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