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Manipulate graphic objects - FrameMaker Tutorial
From the course: FrameMaker 2017 Essential Training
Manipulate graphic objects
- [Instructor] Up until now, the shapes and the lines that we've drawn in our furniture catalog file here have been done by eye. In other words, we've kind of eyeballed exactly where to place those items in alignment with other items on our page, and size them as well, but there are a number of tools to help us with precision. Most often, you're going to want to be precise with your measurements, your alignments, your spacing, and we have a number of tools here in FrameMaker to help us with that. You can see, we have our graphic image, our logo inside the empty square that we created. It's not perfectly aligned, but we have some tools to help us with that. Let's start by going to the edge of our rectangle. Just give it a click. Hold down your Shift key and go to the bottom right-hand corner on that handle, and while holding down Shift, just click and drag it out, make it a little bit bigger. Now it's definitely not centered. You can see that the image, we would have to click and drag…
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