"Transform Each" function in InDesign?

[parkerbrown]

Illustrator has a neat little function called "Transform Each", which enables you to change the scale or orientation of multiple, ungrouped objects at once.

I can't seem to find a comparable feature in ID. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[jmgalvin]

Shift click (Mac) on all objects you want to scale the same.

Then either use the Transform window or Object menu/transform/scale and scale. All objects will scale. If you want to do other transformations click the triangle on the transform window and select other things to do.

If you want to scale everything Select All and scale or do other transformations.

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[parkerbrown]

^^^

Sorry, I should've explained it a bit better. Sounds like you are not familiar with the "Transform Each" tool.

Imagine you have a grid of ten dots by ten dots, and you want each dot to reduce in size, but still retain their own position.

Your method scales the dots down as a group therefore changing the position of the dots.

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try selecting all (groupong might help) objects to transform and then set the origin point using the Scale tool so that obects scale relative to that point.

When I have to scale a bunch of things, I group them, set the origin and then use the scale tool manually to scale. To keep proportions equal, I show the grid so its easy to drag 45 degrees. If you double click the scale tool or Option click it (Alt on PC) you bring up the Transfrom window for manually entering values.

ID doesn't have a fucntion like transform each in AI. AI can do a lot of things that ID can't and visa versa.

Using OSX 10.3.8 on a G4

 

[parkerbrown]

Bah!

Why can't Adobe just get their act together and include simple funcionality in ID?!!!

Why?!

 

[Eggles]

parkerbrown

>>Why can't Adobe just get their act together and include simple funcionality in ID?!!!<<

Because ID is a page layout tool and Illustrator is a vector drawing tool. They do different things. ID makes it very easy to move back and forth to AI, so if AI will do what you want, do it in AI and place the AI file in ID.