Blake_S Posted September 14, 2022 Share Posted September 14, 2022 When replacing an existing PDF, a new PDF is always placed incorrectly - AP always scales it, and I need to manually get it back to display at 100%. How to avoid that? I need to always display the PDF unscaled. Image frame doesn't seem to have a setting for that - it has "Scale to max fit", "Scale to min fit", "Stretch" and "None" You'd think that "None" would be the setting needed - but nope, it doesn't seem to do anything, it doesn't cancel out the existing scaling. I need to drag the scaling slider back to 100% for the PDF to display correctly. This is fine if you ahve maybe 1-2 files, this is not fine when you have a 100 or more on the page (printing small stickers) Don't remember about InDesign, but Illustrator has an option "Preserve: File Dimensions" on a linked file, and even when you replace the linked file, this option ensures that a new file is displayed without any scaling. Another problem is that "Reset rotation" option also doesn't work, it doesn't cancel out the rotation. Maybe it works for images, but doesn't work for PDFs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Callum Posted September 15, 2022 Staff Share Posted September 15, 2022 Hi Blake_S, I think you need to select the button shown in my attached screen shot and then hit the Original Size button this should reset the scaling on your placed PDF. If possible could you provide a screen recording showing the bug with the Reset Rotation button? Thanks C Quote Please tag me using @ in your reply so I can be sure to respond ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake_S Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 2 hours ago, Callum said: I think you need to select the button shown in my attached screen shot Yeah that would be another way to reset the scaling, however this is used to fix the problem, and only on one file, while I am looking into preventing it in the first place, in all files. If I have a 100 PDFs placed, clicking on each one to reset its scaling after replacement is not feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blake_S Posted September 19, 2022 Author Share Posted September 19, 2022 Any other solutions, that don't involve changing each placed PDF individually or changing them every single time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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