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pierret18811376
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December 23, 2023
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keep aspect ratio

  • December 23, 2023
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Hello,

I have done Insert/image, so I have the image inside a frame. Then I have moved the image outside the frame by moving it with the mouse in order to put it at a specific place.

But I have noticed that if I resize the image, it distorts the image :

 

I have tried to do graphic/scale and selected "keep aspect ratio", but the image does not go back to the original aspect ratio.

How to keep all the time the aspect ratio in order to do not distort the image ?

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Correct answer Barb Binder

Hi Pierre:

 

Hold the Shift key and drag diagonally from a corner handle. 

 

~Barb

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pierret18811376Author
Inspiring
December 23, 2023

Hi Bob,

the dimensions of the original image is 800 x 342 pixels with a resolution of 600 ppp.

If I try to vector it, I have a bad result, I suppose because of its low resolution.

Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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December 24, 2023

re: If I try to vector it…

What might that mean?
Current graphics file format tools cannot reliably reconstruct the vectors originally used to make what is now a raster image. OCR can usually recover the text.

When I've had to do this, I put the raster on a lower layer in Illustrator, and rotoscope new vector artwork above it; discard lower; save as SVG.

In some future not too far away, you can ask an Adobe AI app to generate new AVG art based on the raster.

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pierret18811376Author
Inspiring
December 24, 2023

In fact, I have used this tool to convert my image to SVG : https://www.adobe.com/express/feature/image/convert/svg

 

But the result was not good.

Bob_Niland
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Bob_NilandCommunity Expert
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December 23, 2023

What are the image properties as originally found in the document?

Once candiate explanation is that this raster object has non-square pixels, and as such, its default presentation is distorted. It may need to be counter-distorted to appear correctly.

Frankly, if there's only a small number of these thing, I'd be tempted to re-create them as framevector or in an external SVG editor.

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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December 23, 2023

Hi Pierre:

 

Hold the Shift key and drag diagonally from a corner handle. 

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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pierret18811376Author
Inspiring
December 23, 2023

Hi Barb,

I have used the Shift key at the red arrow, but it does not keep aspect ratio. Why ?

 

Barb Binder
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Barb BinderCommunity Expert
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December 23, 2023

Hi Pierre:

 

We need to always hold the Shift key while manually resizing images to maintain the aspect ratio, and undo immediately when we realize we forgot. The other option is to use a percentage factor (i.e., 80% or 125%).

 

Unlike InDesign, FrameMaker does not have a way to restore the aspect ratio when you realize it's off a few days later, so in your case, I would just delete the image and import it again.

 

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training
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