Tutorial
Bleed the Photograph Off the Edge of the Page

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.

  1. 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.

  2. Click the object pointer in the tool bar to select it.

  3. Click the picture block to select it. The picture block's handles appear, indicating that the block itself is selected, not its contents.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. Press Command-1 to switch to Size To Fit view. The whole page is resized to fit in the document window