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I do agree with the definitions posted by @thomaso . In that definition it would definitely be a bug. I refuse to believe that it works as intentionally designed. Perhaps just badly designed and sort of an accidental design flaw. Proof of my statement is the following. Selecting multiple shapes (i.e. an instant grouping) transforms everything in scale. - This is logical. You could create a group and transform but this is faster. Selecting multiple shapes and selecting "Transform separately" implies a equal transformation (either relative or absolute) for all selected items. Just transforming 1 item out of the larger selection makes no sense as you could just select one item to have the same effect. So why design this function to work in this way. Selecting multiple text fields and changing the font size results in all text field changing the font size. Not just one. also does it not do a relative font size change. So the application has different behavior in comparable use cases. In most Mac applications resizing multiple (non grouped) objects with entering a new absolute size results in all objects getting that size. So this is de expected behavior. I can think of no reason of why it should work the way it does. If only developers can decide of something is a bug then nothing would be a bug. In my many years in software this is also very uncommon practice.

We are getting into semantics here. But I would argue that a bug is where an application functions unpredictable, unexpectedly or illogical. The mentioned export example would be a bug in that case as it should be expected behavior. Going with the "we did not think of it so it it not a bug" is just an excuse for lazy design and development. So I would call the experience of selecting multiple shapes at the same time but only one transforms a bug as it is unexpected and illogical behavior. Especially when compared to the same behavior in other apps. Then it is also unpredictable behavior. The unpredictable, unexpectedly or illogical filter would exclude a lot of items on the list from being bugs and therefore feature requests.

I do have all 3 applications. But in this case the images are linked and I don't want to alter them. I just want them all in the same height.

Thank, I just did a manual resize of every image. took some time but less then the search for the quick fix I do think it is a bug. If you select multiple items it only shows one item with sizing shapes. There is no logical reason to select multiple items and have only one item resizable. If anyone wanted that just select the one shape.

Having read some other posts I believe this is a bug in the software. Selecting multiple items in order to give them the same size does not seem te be possible

Agreed. I was looking for this, in my perception, basic feature. Scale all objects to have the same height. For some reason I is a lot of manual work. I do think it is a bug. No one is stupid enough to not design this as a feature.

I'm have a publisher page with multiple photo's (over 30) all in 4:3 but in multiple sizes. How do I give them all the same exact height in one transformation. I don't want to retype the size for all images.