2018

PICTURES
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You may need to resize or reposition a picture after you import it to make it fit
properly within its box.
Choose File > Import.•
Drag a picture file from the file system onto a picture component. If the•
component contains a picture, press Command/Ctrl to replace it.
Drag a picture from another application onto a picture component. If the•
component contains a picture, press Command/Ctrl to replace it.
Drag a picture file from the file system onto a text component and press•
Command/Ctrl to make the component accept the picture.
Drag a picture from another application onto a text component and press•
Command/Ctrl to make the component accept the picture.
Moving pictures
You can move pictures inside their boxes with:
the Picture Content tool •
the Measurements palette•
With the Picture Content tool selected, you can click any part of an image,
regardless of its position in its box. You can also nudge a picture in its box by using
the arrow keys.
If the Item tool is selected when you are using the arrow keys on the keyboard,
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the box will move instead of the picture within the box. See “Moving items“ for more
information about moving pictures.
Resizing pictures
You can scale pictures to make them larger or smaller using:
the Picture Content tool •
the Measurements palette•
the Style menu•
After importing a picture into a box, you can choose Fit Box to Picture and Scale
Picture to Box from the context menu (or Style menu). Press the Shift key while
resizing a picture with the Picture Content tool to resize the picture
proportionately.
You can scale pictures to make them larger or smaller by clicking and dragging the
round picture handles on the corners and sides of the picture. Press the Shift key
while resizing a picture to resize the picture proportionately. Press
Shift+Option/Shift+Alt while dragging a corner handle to resize the picture
proportionately from the center. You can also scale pictures using the Style menu,
the Measurements palette, or the context menu.
To scale a picture proportionally so that its largest dimension fits inside the picture
component, choose Scale Picture to Box from the context menu or Style menu. To