InDesign for QuarkXPress Users

Chapter 17. Moving and Resizing Objects

Apart from selecting objects or editing text, most of us probably spend more time moving and resizing objects on the page than any other activity. That makes this is a particularly important chapter. Fortunately, most of the ways moving and scaling work in XPress also work in InDesign—with the addition of a new palette and a couple of powerful new tools.

The Transform Palette

One of the first things QuarkXPress users notice first when they start using InDesign is the absence of a Measurements palette. Instead, InDesign lets you move and resize objects in the Transform palette (see Figure 17-1). Like the Measurement palette, the Transform palette provides two essential functions: The first is informational, ...