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Percent or Units from the menus to the right of the Width and Height fields,
and then enter appropriate values in the fields.
To scale items proportionally, click the Constrain button . When you
constrain scaling, the Height option is unavailable and items will be scaled
equally vertically and horizontally according to the entry in the Width field.
The Original and Scaled dimensions of the bounding box of the item or group
are displayed (in current units of measurement). These values are updated
whenever you change a value in the Width or Height fields.
To change scaling settings, click the Settings button in the Scale dialog box
or choose Scale Settings from the Scale palette menu. The Adaptive Scaling
dialog box displays. Each check box controls whether a particular item or
attribute is scaled or not.
Adaptive Scaling dialog box
In the Scale palette, you can check Layout to scale the entire layout and
everything in it.
Scaling allows you to scale an item so that it is smaller or larger than
QuarkXPress allows. Such an item will print correctly, but if you attempt to
modify it with QuarkXPress tools or commands, an error message will
display.
Scaling is not designed to work with all items synchronized through the
Content palette Window > Content). Instances of the shared item will inherit