Scale Dialog / Scale Templates Dialog

The Scale dialog and Scale Templates dialog both allow you to quickly resize template objects.

You can use the Scale dialog on a single template when you have one or more objects that you want to resize. The dialog allows you to resize the selected object(s) using one of the following methods:

By setting the width and height dimensions for the entire block of objects selected
By specifying the scale percentage by which you want to enlarge or diminish the objects

You can use the Scale Templates dialog to quickly resize all of the objects on all of the templates in your document at once. This dialog is only available when you change the size settings for the page or the template on the Page Setup dialog. Whenever you make this type of change, a prompt appears asking whether or not you want to automatically scale the designs on the template. Clicking Yes on this prompt opens the Scale Templates dialog. Any settings you specify in the Scale Templates dialog are applied to all objects on each of the templates in your document.

To open the Scale dialog

To open the Scale Templates dialog

The following options are available on the dialog:

Some options may be read-only or hidden depending on whether you have accessed the Scale dialog or the Scale Templates dialog, and depending on types of objects included in the scaling process.

Current Size

Current Width: Specifies the current width of the block of selected objects. Read-only on the Scale Templates dialog.
Current Height: Specifies the current height of the block of selected objects. Read-only on the Scale Templates dialog.

New Size

New Width: Specifies the width you want to apply to the block of selected objects. Type the new width dimension into the size input box. Alternatively, type the percentage you want into the percentage input box, or use the dropdown list to select a preset percentage value. Read-only on the Scale Templates dialog.
New Height: Specifies the height you want to apply to the block of selected objects. Type the new height dimension into the size input box. Alternatively, type the percentage you want into the percentage input box, or use the dropdown list to select a preset percentage value. Read-only on the Scale Templates dialog.

Scaling Options

For the most part, scaling options are logically independent from settings specified in an object's Properties dialog. However, an object's type and settings can impact how scaling options are applied. For example, the width-to-height ratio for a barcode object will not be precisely preserved even when the Scale Proportionally option is chosen, because barcode objects must resize at specific intervals in order to remain readable. In this case, the object’s own settings take precedence over the selected scaling option.

Text: The Text scaling property specifies how the text component of the selected object(s) will be scaled.

Do Not Scale: Specifies that the text of the selected object(s) will not be scaled.
Scale Proportionally: Specifies that the width-to-height ratio of a selected object's text is preserved when it is scaled.
Scale Freely: Specifies that the text of the selected object(s) will be scaled without preserving width-to-height ratio.

Barcodes: The Barcodes scaling property specifies how the selected barcode object(s) will be scaled.

Do Not Scale: Specifies that the selected barcode object(s) will not be scaled.
Scale Proportionally: Specifies that the width-to-height ratio of the selected barcode(s) is preserved when it is scaled.
Scale Freely: Specifies that the selected barcode(s) will be scaled without preserving width-to-height ratio.

Pictures: The Pictures scaling property specifies how a selected picture object will be scaled.

When a picture object's Sizing Method property is set to Percentage of Original Size, and you choose the scaling option Scale Freely, the Sizing Method property will be changed to Stretch to Rectangle so that the picture actually can be scaled freely.

Do Not Scale: Specifies that selected picture object(s) will not be scaled.
Scale Proportionally: Specifies that the width-to-height ratio of the selected picture object(s) is preserved when it is scaled.
Scale Freely: Specifies that the selected picture object(s) will be scaled without preserving width-to-height ratio.

Lines: The Lines scaling property specifies how you want to scale the line thickness of line and shape objects, as well as any borders of selected text and barcode objects. A line object's length is always adjusted according to the new size specified.

Maintain Thickness: Specifies that the line thickness is not scaled.
Scale Thickness: Specifies that the line thickness is scaled.