AD V2 Transforming text and Text boxes.

[jackamus]

I have created a one page doc made up of QS's and text boxes ( its a flow chart) that is just a bit too large for an A4 sheet of paper. I want to save the file in n A4 format. I thought I could group all the text boxes and QS's and simply transform them down but this doesn't happen and is a mess!

How can I do this without having to increase the doc size to accommodate all the information and be still able to edit?

[walt.farrell]

Once you Grouped everything, how did you do the transform operation? And what do you mean by "a mess"?

One method that should work is to select the Group then use the rescale handle (outer detached handle) on the bounding box. Though, in that case, I don't think the text font sizes shown will be accurate any more.

[jackamus]

10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Once you Grouped everything, how did you do the transform operation? And what do you mean by "a mess"?

One method that should work is to select the Group then use the rescale handle (outer detached handle) on the bounding box. Though, in that case, I don't think the text font sizes shown will be accurate any more.

I used the one of the corner handles to drag to a different size but the grouped transforms in different ways. I have attached the file which is current ly on an A2 format - I would prefer an A4 format.

PS Feel free  to comment on the content as it is not private or sensitive information.

Bank loans.afdesign

[Dan C]

Hi @jackamus,

As Walt has mentioned: 

3 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

One method that should work is to select the Group then use the rescale handle (outer detached handle) on the bounding box.

This will resize the text within the text frame objects as you adjust the group size, allowing you to resize the Group to fit within an A4 document. If you hold the Shift key whilst resizing, the objects will retain their aspect ratio - 

 
Make sure that you are using the detached handle in the bottom right of the frame in order for the text to be scaled with the transform

[jackamus]

1 hour ago, Dan C said:

Hi @jackamus,

As Walt has mentioned: 

This will resize the text within the text frame objects as you adjust the group size, allowing you to resize the Group to fit within an A4 document. If you hold the Shift key whilst resizing, the objects will retain their aspect ratio - 

 
Make sure that you are using the detached handle in the bottom right of the frame in order for the text to be scaled with the transform

Gotcha! I used the bottom right corner handle and not the other handle near it. Thanks problem solved.