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To further add insult to injury, note the absense of a spell checker
too :frowning:

I use Intaglio for a lot of page layout stuff, but the text tools are
really weak- which is such a shame. I so wish the developers would get
on top of this, but they rarely answer my requests.

Intaglio is almost brilliant for DTP if it wasn’t for these silly
oversights.

regards,

Tom

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As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–let’s
say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well, you can’t.
So if you have 50 horizontal lines,
forget resizing them unless you want to do it 150 separate times. Or
you can resize one and dupe it, but Intaglio’s not precise enough to
make each dupe and its position identical over that many operations.

And yeah, I do have to do this sometimes.

Julie

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Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–let’s
say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well, you can’t.

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Julie,

also remember that holding down ctrl and shift while resizing, will
constrain proportions (very useful!)

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:33, Jacques Villars wrote:

Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–let’s
say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well, you can’t.

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Now why didn’t I think of that? I mean seriously, why didn’t I?

Thanks much,

-j

On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Jacques Villars wrote:

Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–let’s
say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well, you can’t.

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Thanks. I’d managed to get that far. And having asked myself in my
previous message why I hadn’t thought of grouping before resizing, I
realized that as far back as I go–MacDraw/MacDraft, then MacDraw
Pro, then Claris Draw, then AppleWorks–I hadn’t ever encountered an
app that didn’t let me do what I was trying to do in Intaglio. And as
simple as the workaround is, I still wonder why it’s needed.

But then, Intaglio does fill a real need. Mine, at least. Definitely.

-j

On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Tom wrote:

Julie,

also remember that holding down ctrl and shift while resizing, will
constrain proportions (very useful!)

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:33, Jacques Villars wrote:

Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–
let’s say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well,
you can’t.

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What I don’t like about this method though (grouping then resizing),
is that this action tends to
clump everything into the same layer- which is also really annoying!

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:46, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks. I’d managed to get that far. And having asked myself in my
previous message why I hadn’t thought of grouping before resizing, I
realized that as far back as I go–MacDraw/MacDraft, then MacDraw
Pro, then Claris Draw, then AppleWorks–I hadn’t ever encountered an
app that didn’t let me do what I was trying to do in Intaglio. And
as simple as the workaround is, I still wonder why it’s needed.

But then, Intaglio does fill a real need. Mine, at least. Definitely.

-j

On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Tom wrote:

Julie,

also remember that holding down ctrl and shift while resizing, will
constrain proportions (very useful!)

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:33, Jacques Villars wrote:

Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–
let’s say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well,
you can’t.

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Yes, and there are other workarounds for other omissions that are also
annoying. The lack of a built-in arrow with its own length indicator
is another. In short, while there are workarounds for a lot of what I
find missing in Intaglio, most of the missing stuff seems pretty
elementary. -j

On Jun 28, 2009, at 7:01 PM, Tom wrote:

What I don’t like about this method though (grouping then resizing),
is that this action tends to
clump everything into the same layer- which is also really annoying!

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:46, Julie Martin wrote:

Thanks. I’d managed to get that far. And having asked myself in my
previous message why I hadn’t thought of grouping before resizing,
I realized that as far back as I go–MacDraw/MacDraft, then MacDraw
Pro, then Claris Draw, then AppleWorks–I hadn’t ever encountered
an app that didn’t let me do what I was trying to do in Intaglio.
And as simple as the workaround is, I still wonder why it’s needed.

But then, Intaglio does fill a real need. Mine, at least. Definitely.

-j

On Jun 28, 2009, at 5:37 PM, Tom wrote:

Julie,

also remember that holding down ctrl and shift while resizing,
will constrain proportions (very useful!)

On 28 Jun 2009, at 22:33, Jacques Villars wrote:

Hello Julie,
try the following procedure :

  1. select and group…
  2. resize…
  3. ungroup…
    …the objects

jacques

Le 28 juin 09 à 23:00, Julie Martin a écrit :

As far as I can tell, if you shift-click on multiple shapes–
let’s say a line–and drag to resize all simultaneously, well,
you can’t.

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