Transform palette settings You can select options and enter data in the Trans- form palette to change the size, location, and ori- entation of select- ed objects. A    Reference point. Click a point in the box to set the refer- ence point for the object. The location of the reference point depends on the object’s shape. With a rectangle selected, the corner points in the box corre- spond to the rectangle’s cor- ners. With an oval or other shape selected, the corner points in the box correspond to the corners of the object’s bounding box. Rotation point. Shift-click a point in the box to set the rota- tion point for the object. A red square in the box indicates the current rotation point. The rota- tion point is a point on the object around which the object rotates if you enter a rotation angle. B    Position data. The type of data that appears in the boxes, and their labels, depends on whether you choose Relative, Absolute, Start/End Points, or Distance and Angle in the menu (C).   C   Choose an option for speci- fying location and size data. You can choose Relative, Absolute, Start/End Points, or Distance and Angle. Choose Relative to change position relative to the current position, or height and width values. Choose Absolute to specify X Y coordinates or height and width values. Choose Start/End Points to specify X Y coordinates. Choose Distance & Angle to specify X Y coordinates, dis- tance, and angle for lines. D   When this button is select- ed, the palette constrains ob- jects so they are resized propor- tionally. For example, if you type a width value, Canvas cal- culates the height value to keep the object’s proportions the same. E    The X and Y boxes show 100% when you select an ob- ject. You can resize an object by percentages by changing the values. For example, to resize a rectangle so it is twice as wide, type 200 in the X box. To make it one-half as tall, type 50 in the Y box. The Y box is not available when the proportion option (D) is selected. F    Rotation. Click to select clockwise or counter-clockwise rotation. Type the angle of rota- tion in the box to rotate the ob- ject. G   Skew. Click to select hori- zontal or vertical skewing. Type the skew angle in the box to skew the object. H   When this is selected, the Transform palette operates as if multiple selected objects were a group object. If this option is not selected, the palette affects selected objects individually. With multiple objects selected and the group option (H) not selected, coordinate values are 0; you can enter new values, which Canvas applies to each object when you press Enter. A B C D E F G H
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