Publisher - Select multiple frames, resize all

[Beautiful-Cranberry]

Hi everybody,

Is there any way to select multiple frames (text frames and image frames) and resize all of them to a specific size?  Or if not both text and image, just multiple text frames or multiple image frames? There seems to be no way to do this at the moment and I need to do all of them individually. 

Thanks!

[GarryP]

Welcome to the forums @Beautiful-Cranberry

You can resize multiple layers at the same time by using Transform Objects Separately (on the Context Toolbar of the Move Tool) but that transformation is relative to the size of the selected layer.

For example, with two rectangles, one of width 100 and another of width 50, if you try and resize the width of the first one to 50 the width of the second one will become 25 (100/2 = 50, 50/2 = 25).

There have been various people asking about absolute resizing of multiple layers but I don’t know if there has been an actual request for this. You could try searching the forums and ‘add your voice’ to one of those if you want to (if you can find one).

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, GarryP said:

You can resize multiple layers at the same time by using Transform Objects Separately (on the Context Toolbar of the Move Tool) but that transformation is relative to the size of the selected layer.

Also, as the question is about Publisher, another limitation (for page-based documents) is that you can only work on the objects on a single page at a time, I believe.

For objects on multiple pages, you can resize all of them at once if they were inherited from a Master Page, but not if they were drawn individually on the pages.