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• • March 2, 2011 at 9:49 am #58857
    Anonymous

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    Using ID CS4 v6.0.6 – I am perplexed and hoping someone can help me figure out this issue. Received a file from designer, and when selecting a picture box with the Selection tool, the box does not measure 100% – it measures 50% or 30%. I cannot seem to reproduce this. One person suggested that using Command-Option-Shift, but, no – box itself still measures 100%. Anyone else ever seen this and how to reproduce?

  • March 2, 2011 at 10:04 am #58858
    Rhiannon Miller

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    Are you using the Selection tool, or the Direct Selection tool? If you use Direct Selection, then it will show you the scaling value of the image within the frame, which might be any value. If you use Selection, then it will show you the scaling value of the frame itself, which always resets itself when you change it so that the new value is 100%.

  • March 2, 2011 at 3:41 pm #58860
    Anonymous

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    Yes, I am definitely using the Selection Tool. That's why this is so strange. No matter what I do, the picture box resets itself to read 100%. This is ocuring on both .tiff and .ai files. The picture box with the Selection tool tells me the box is 73.9510543691828%. Using the Direct Select tool, the file measures 20.5306559378104% (both x & y are same percentages for both the box and the file).

  • March 2, 2011 at 5:35 pm #58861
    Somerset Walmsley

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    Did they change the Preference to “When scaling: Adjust Precentage” instead of “apply to content”? I believe that's one of the preferences that travels with files, so would be showing up, even though it's not a setting you changed. The option is found under the General scetion of the Preferences.

  • March 2, 2011 at 8:15 pm #58863
    Anonymous

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    I opened the file, and the preference is set to “apply to to content”

  • March 7, 2011 at 10:15 pm #58906
    hyland b.

    Member

    Did you solve this mystery? I'm sure that you've checked, but the Links palatte stores scaling info that might provide some clues.

    For the heck of it, did you try placing some of the art into a brand new doc? If you can get it to behave, at least you've narrowed the problem to the document and not the art itself.

    And/but all of those numbers after the decimal point look really suspect to me. My hunch is that the doc is corrupt… I hope I'm wrong, tho!

    Did you try resetting your Prefs?

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