Chapter 6. Clipping Paths, Transforming Objects, and Alignment
In This Chapter
Transforming objects with the Transform panel
Transforming objects with the Free Transform tool
Rotating and scaling objects
Shearing and reflecting objects
Adding a clipping path
Aligning and distributing objects in a layout
In this chapter, you discover several different ways to manipulate and arrange objects on a page. You find out how to use the Transform panel and other tools in the toolbox to transform objects on page layouts. You can make the same transformation in many different ways in InDesign, so for each way you can transform an object, we show you a couple different ways to do the same job.
Aligning and/or distributing objects and images helps you organize elements logically on a page. In this chapter, you find out how to align objects with the Align panel. In Chapter 5 of this minibook, we touch on vector paths. This chapter provides more information about clipping paths. We show you how to create a new path to use as a clipping path for an image in your document.
Working with Transformations
Chapter 3 of this minibook shows you how to transform graphic objects by skewing them. You can manipulate objects in InDesign in many other ways. You can transform an object by choosing Object
Looking at the Transform panel
The Transform panel (as shown in Figure 6-1) is extremely useful for changing the way an image ...
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