CS5's transformation bounding box... argh!

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August 16, 2010
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Does anyone know of a way to turn off the bounding box which Indesign CS5 draws around a selection of objects? It's driving me nuts as it's nolonger easy to see just what's been selected and what hasn't if other objects appear within the bounding box's frame!

Illustrator has had this feature for a while - and has an option to turn it off. Whither Indesign?

Cheers.

Peter

Progress, eh? One step forwards and half a dozen back!!!!

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Anonymous

I can't see how the bounding box makes it more difficult to tell what is selected. What would you see that you don't see with the bounding box? (OTOH it's pretty easy to give the example of the bounding box showing that you have an invisible and unwanted object selected.) While I don't like a lot of structural things cluttering up the screen the bounding box does make the behaviour more intuitive -- it shows more clearly what is selected for transformation -- and ultimately behaviour should trump appearances.

Studio57NL complains that it is no longer possible to transform individual objects while having multiple objects selected, but I wonder why anyone would need to select multiple objects in order to transform them individually. The fact that the example given has them already selected seems irrelevant. Why would the objects need to stay selected once they have been copied? If they are a group, why aren't they grouped?

(I think in post 35 Bob is either mistaken or worded his thoughts awkwardly.) With the previous behaviour, selected objects could be transformed individually, but needed to be grouped in order to transform as a unit. Current behaviour allows selected objects to be transformed as a unit without grouping, but they can't be transformed individually. Seems a six of one half dozen of the other scenerio, but the current group behaviour is simplified and the Selection tool can now transform elements within a group without switching tools and double clicking, so I think the current behaviour comes out on top.

DKTR Jeroen

Known Participant

This thing is still driving me crazy. I desperately need to turn this feature off.

Does anyone know of an extension which is responsible for the Bounding Box I can disable? Or a Plugin I can install which does the trick?

I just can't understand why Adobe doesn't let me turn it off just like in Illustrator. Guess its just very hard to program.

John Hawkinson

Inspiring

If you upgrade to CS5.5 this is now a preference (Frame Edge Highlighting). Sorry if that's not a palatable answer.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

John, we're not talking about frame edge highlighting in this thread, we're talking about the bounding box drawn around multiple selected objects that makes them look like a group.

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Anonymous

To Get rid of that dreaded Transformation bounding box in InDesign go to Preferences>Interface>uncheck the

SHOW TRANSFORMATION field.

Happy days !!!!!

Peter Spier

Community Expert

That's something different, too. Show Transformation Values controls the callout that shows the cahnging values as you transform a frame, not the bounding box around multiple selected items.

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MK178

Participating Frequently

so I've been looking for this as well. I hate it! I took the plug in out, with illustrator, because for me it was very annoying. Now I have to deal with it in Indesign CS5. Is there no way to turn this thing off???