keep aspect ratio

[pierret18811376]

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 ?

[Barb Binder]

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

[pierret18811376]

Hi Barb,

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

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Hi Pierre:

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

~Barb

[Bob_Niland]

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.

[pierret18811376]

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]

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.

[pierret18811376]

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.