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Whit G.
Inspiring
October 9, 2019
Question

Unable to adjust the size of the artboard as per the design in XD (22.7v)

  • October 9, 2019
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This is a head-shaker for me. If I'm attempting to change the artboard width by dragging one of the horizontal control points, and I add the Option key to the mix, obviously wanting to scale from the center rather than one of the L/R edges, it seems clear to me that the elements within the artboard should also remain centered. Alas, that is not the case - they remain anchored from the 0,0 (left edge) origin point, even though I can already scale the artboard in that way (relative to its contents) without the Option key. 

 

Please change this behavior, it currently defies logic as far as I can tell. Sure, you *might* want to center-scale an artboard relative to other artboards on your canvas (continuing to have the contents anchor to 0,0), but that just isn't as likely to be what a creator is trying to do with Option held down. Right now I'm going to have to manually move all of those elements AND my guides in order to change the artboard width - several unnecessary steps.

 

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HARSHIKA_VERMA
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 9, 2019

Hi there,

 

Thank you for reaching out and sorry for the frustration. If i heard you right, it looks like you are facing the similar issue as mentioned here: https://adobexd.uservoice.com/forums/353007-adobe-xd-feature-requests/suggestions/33580012-resize-artboard If yes, we would request you to please try the solution mentioned by Elaine and let us know if that helps.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

Whit G.
Whit G.Author
Inspiring
October 9, 2019
Nope, I tried that - it attempts to scale various things on the artboard, which isn't at all what I'm trying to do.
HARSHIKA_VERMA
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 14, 2019

Thanks for trying the solution and sorry that it didn't work for you. Please submit your feedback on the uservoice so that our team can look into it.

 

Thanks,

Harshika

Ares Hovhannesyan
Community Expert
Community Expert
October 9, 2019

Please add your feature here .https://adobexd.uservoice.com/

Whit G.
Whit G.Author
Inspiring
October 9, 2019
Yeah, I realized after posting here that it should go there, and someone already did: https://community.adobe.com/t5/Adobe-XD/Option-scale-artboard-everything-remains-centered/m-p/10658909#M16984