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Snowdog63
Inspiring
April 26, 2025
Question

How do I correct the scaling percentages?

  • April 26, 2025
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I have an illustrator file & some of the places images are distorted, by which I mean that the height & width percentages are not the same.

 

The one I'm currently looking at is 23.567% x 24.312%

 

I cannot for the life of me find the boxes where I can enter one of the percentages to match the other.

1 reply

Jacob Bugge
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 26, 2025

Snowdog,

 

You can get them to be the same through the Object>Transform>Scale once you have decided which to keep:

 

In the relevant box (Horizontal/Vertical), just insert the desired value multiplied by 100 (move the decimal stop two places to the right), then add /, then add the undesired value, then press Enter:

 

  • If the desired value is 23.567%, insert 2356.7/24.312 and press Enter
  • If the desired value is 24.312%, insert 2431.2/23.567 and press Enter

 

Similarly, in case you wish to have a different common percentage, such as 24%, you can, use that value in both boxes:

 

  • Insert 2400/24.312 and press Enter to change from 24.312% to 24%
  • Insert 2400/23.567 and press Enter to change from 23.567% to 24%

 

In either case you can check afterwards.

 

Snowdog63
Snowdog63Author
Inspiring
April 26, 2025

I knew it was going to be something like that. Because being able to enter percentages in boxes the way you can in EVERY OTHER ADOBE APP would be too simple.

 

Thanks for the reply. I genuinely appreciate the effort you went into to explain that.

 

I would absolutely consider this to be a moajor oversight on the part of Adobe.

Jacob Bugge
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 26, 2025

You are welcome, Snowdog, and thank you for your kind words.

 

It could form the basis of a feature request, or joining if there is one already,


https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests
https://illustrator.uservoice.com/

 

and then using (one of) the roundabout way(s) until the request is implemented or till the end of time, whichever occurs first.