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4. Click anywhere on the page, press and hold the Shift key, then drag down
and right to draw a rectangle that is 1.25″ high and 1.25″ wide. Note:

As you draw, cursor feedback If you simply click a basic
shows the size of the shape shape or frame tool on
you are creating. The blue line the page, a dialog box
previews the shape
Pressing Shift while drawing you are drawing. opens so you can define a
a shape constrains the specific size for the new
horizontal and vertical Cursor feedback shape.
dimensions of the shape to shows the size of the
have equal height and width shape you’re drawing.
— in other words, this creates
a perfect square or circle.

Default Fill and
Stroke button

5. Release the mouse button to create the rectangle.
The new shape appears in the position you drew it. Notice that the new frame has both a
fill and Stroke color of None, even though you reset the Black stroke color in Step 3.
New graphics frames always default to a Fill and Stroke color of None, with a 0-pt
stroke weight, regardless of the settings you define before creating the frame. Fortunately,
you can always change these settings after creating the frame.

Position and dimensions
of the selected object. Bounding box handles
Note:

If you use the regular
shape tools instead of
the frame tools, the Fill
and Stroke settings you
define before drawing
are reflected in the new
shape.

6. At the left end of the Control panel, select the bottom-left reference point.

The Control panel is context-sensitive, Constrain proportions Constrain proportions
which means different options are available for width & height for scaling
depending on what is selected in the
document. This panel consolidates the
most common options from multiple
InDesign panels.
Transformation Object Scale the object by a
The reference point determines how reference point dimensions specific percentage
transformations will occur (in other words,
which point of the object will remain in Object position
place if you change one of the position or
dimension values). These points correspond to the object’s bounding box handles, as
well as to the object’s exact center point.

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