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The bottom and right sides of the kachina are cropped off by the bottom and right edges of
the picture block. But the kachina was scanned so that it would bleed off the bottom and
right sides of the front page. The objects you've worked with so far were designed to snap
to the grid. Now you'll learn how to change the size of an object with the grid turned
off.
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Choose Snap To In the Page menu to
turn it off. Snap To is checked in the Page menu when it is on. If it is checked when you
choose it, it becomes unchecked in the menu and snap to is turned off. That means that
objects you draw or resize ignore the grid.
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Click the object pointer in the
tool bar to select it.
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Click the picture block to select
it. The picture block's handles appear, indicating that the block itself is selected, not
its contents.
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Position the pointer on the handle
at the bottom-right corner of the picture block and drag the handle towards the
bottom-right corner of the page, but don't release the mouse button. A dotted outline
indicates the new edges of the picture block as you resize it. Notice that when you resize
an object, the thin, dotted lines in the horizontal and vertical rulers indicate the
position of the handle you drag.
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Drag the handle off the
bottom-right corner of the page, and when the dotted lines in the rulers reach the 55-pica
mark on the vertical ruler and the 37-pica mark on the horizontal ruler, release the mouse
button. Because you turned Snap To off, the bottom and right sides of the picture block
are moved to the point where you released the mouse button, instead of snapping to the
grid.
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Press Command-1 to switch to Size
To Fit view. The whole page is resized to fit in the document window
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