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Martín Caezza
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October 18, 2024
Question

Issue with Proportional Scaling and Snapping to Guides in InDesign After Update

Hi everyone,
I’m having trouble scaling with Shift since the last update and couldn’t find any information about it. I don’t have any plugins installed.
When I press Shift to scale, it works as expected, except when it encounters a guide or another element with smart guides enabled. In that case, it snaps non-proportionally to where my mouse is, instead of maintaining proportionality and snapping vertically or horizontally to the guide/element where I have the mouse.
Disabling snapping and smart guides solves the issue, but it’s not a real solution because, aside from the hassle of constantly turning them on and off, I often need to scale an image proportionally while snapping one of its sides to a guide.
Is anyone else experiencing this problem? Is this the expected behavior, or is it a bug? Maybe it’s a new feature. In that case, is there an option to return to the previous behavior?

Thanks,
Martín

 

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    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    October 18, 2024

    Are you usiong the Scale Tool or the Selection Tool to do this?

    I personally always use the selection tool and Ctrl (Cmd) + Shif to scale proportionaly and have never had a problem, but I just did a little experimentation in version 19.3 with the Scale Tool holding shift and got some unexpected results if I failed to drag diagonally

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    Martín CaezzaAuthor
    Participant
    October 18, 2024

    The Selection tool, I also use the Scale tool and it doesn’t present any issues, but many times I want to use the Selection tool because it’s faster to simply grab a corner than to go all the way to the other side of the screen (or even scroll) to change the center of the Scale tool. I’m using version 19.5, unfortunately I don’t remember which version I was using before or when the bug started, as it doesn’t happen all the time.

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    Vivek-Sharma
    Community Manager
    Vivek-SharmaCommunity Manager
    Community Manager
    October 18, 2024

    Hi Martin, Sorry for the trouble. Please provide the following information required to investigate this issue further:
    Operating System version.
    Screen recording depicting the issue.
    Please try to roll back to the previous version for testing purposes and confirm if the issue persists.


    ^VS

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    Martín CaezzaAuthor
    Participant
    October 18, 2024

    Hi,

    Thank you for your response. I have added a screen recording demonstrating the issue as requested. While trying to reproduce the problem, I discovered that it only happens with certain images, and specifically when I scale the image itself, not the image container. The issue also occurs only when certain elements are present on the artboard, when I delete those elements, the problem no longer occurs, as shown in the video.

    Please note that the file in question is for a panel that is 3 meters tall, and the image I’m working with is quite large (7000x4600 pixels).
    During the  scaling process, I am always holding down the Shift key.

    Let me know if you need any further information.

    Best regards,
    Martin

    Hardware Overview:

    Model Name: Mac Studio
    Model Identifier: Mac14,14
    Chip: Apple M2 Ultra
    Total Number of Cores: 24 (16 performance and 8 efficiency)
    Memory: 128 GB

    Sonoma: 14.4.1 (23E224)



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