GLUON ProScale ID ^v1.0

Scaling Plugin for Professionals

ProScale INSTRUCTIONS

USING GLUON ProScale™

THE GLUON MENU

ProScale’s functions are accessed through the GLUON Menu which appears on the right side of the menu bar. The dialog can be brought up at any time using the Control-Shift-P Key Command. also.

THE SCALING TOOL

ProScale installs a new icon on the tool bar (left). Click on this whenever you have boxes selected if you want to resize the selection manually.

THE SCALER

With the ProScale... menu item you can scale page elements or groups of elements or documents to a specific percentage or size. All currently selected items will be scaled to the amount or size specified and the elements will be repositioned accordingly. If no items are selected, ProScale will assume you wish to scale the entire document, thus certain features will not be available within the dialog.

The Dialog

The dialog is broken into 3 tabbed sections: Scale, Options and Presets. At the bottom of the dialog are 3 main buttons:

Cancel Ignores all changes and performs nothing.

Use Settings allows you to capture settings for use with the scaling tool without actually scaling anything.

Scale Performs the scaling action.

The Scale Tab

If you wish to scale only the item(s) you have selected, then make sure the Selection radio button is hilited. Otherwise scaling will apply to the Entire

Document or Page Range. When scaling entire documents, the actual page size can be changed. If extra pages result, you can delete them if needed. ProScale will use the Scale from: Upper left of selection option when scaling documents. Use Page Range to set a page range to scale all items on each page in the range. Use a plus(+) before page numbers to scale absolute pages.

Scale by: When scale by Percent is selected, all scaling is done as a relative percentage of the current selection or document. When Size is selected, the scaler automatically calculates the horizontal and vertical percentages which will scale the selection to the desired target size. NOTE: The target size is always displayed below in the Information Display Bar in current measurement units.

Constrained: When Constrained is selected, scaling is done uniformly along the x and y axes. Use this if you wish to maintain the original proportions of the item(s) selected.

Non-constrained: When Constrained is not selected, scaling is done separately along the x and y axes.

Use this if you wish to distort the original proportions of the item(s) selected. NOTE: when Scale-by- size is being used, the Horizontal and Vertical text fields are used for both Constrained and Non-con- strained types of scaling. They will be updated automatically when Constrained scaling is being used.

Fit to: When this option is selected, the pop-up menu next to it will allow you the resize all selected items or document to fit the item you select either proportionally or non-proportionally depending on whether you hit the constrain checkmark. To completely fill a page, first select turn Constrain off and then Fit to Page. Fitting to bleed will cause items to scale to 1/8” outside trim.

When one of the column options is selected, all selected items will be scaled to fit the nearest column either proportionally or non-proportionally depending on whether constrained is on. Column width is determined in Master Guides or when document is first created. The default number of columns is one which would cause this function to scale objects out to the margins of the page. (see page 4 for more on Fit to). Additional items can be added to the fit-to menus through the Presets Tab (below).

Scale from: These four options are used to change the center of scaling. Default setting is upper left of selection.

Use this setting when resizing documents as other settings may cause abnormal offsets of your resulting layout on the new document’s page. Use the bottom two choices to add or fill space in a layout without changing the layout itself.

Step and Repeat: Use this feature to create multiple scalings of a given selection. This can be used to create logo sheets or for design purposes.

Repeat Count: With Repeat Count set to 1 (default) your current selection will be scaled. When Repeat Count is Positive, current Step and Repeat settings will be used to offset your scaled items. Make sure you have room on your page to accommodate your offsets and resizing. When Repeat Count is negative, new pages will be added to the end of your document and scaled copies of the current selection will be placed on these pages. The first copy will be scaled to the amount set in Scale Percent. The remaining copies will have the scale percent increased or decreased by the value in Step Percent. The Repeat items will be hidden when they do not apply logically such as with Scale Document or Non-Constrained scaling.

Step Amount: This is the amount added to the Scale Percent when Repeat Count is greater than 1. A positive number will increase the scale percent while negative numbers will decrease it. This number can also be in absolute sizes when Scale by size is selected.

Example: Scale Percent = 110, Repeat Count = 3, Step Amount = 20 1st scale = 110%, 2nd scale = 130%, 3rd scale = 150%

The Options Tab

Items to scale: The scaling of Text Boxes, Text, Leading, TABs, Anchored Boxes, Runaround, Line Weights, Lines, Graphic Boxes, Graphics, Bézier Shapes, Style Sheets, Guides and Document Size can be toggled on or off. When an item is off (grayed out), scaling is precluded for that item. Style Sheets, Guides and Document Size are not available for selection-based scaling.

Keep proportional: When the Non-constrained method is used, additional options are enabled which allow you to resize everything but keep individual items selected at their original x and y proportions. This is extremely handy for resizing full-page documents into brochures and slim jims. The default setting has the Text,

Anchored Boxes and Graphics items checked as this often produces the most useful layouts with minimal tweaking needed.

Round fonts to nearest .5: Use this option when you want to avoid irregular font sizes in scaled text boxes.

The Presets Tab

This Tab is where you go to save and recall entire setting groups. Saved settings include checkboxes radio buttons, sizes and percentages. NOTE: If Document scaling is active and you scale by size, the setting can appear in the document fit-to menu. If Selection scaling is active and you scale by size, the setting can appear in the selection fit-to menu.

Name: The currently selected list item’s name appears here. You can change it here to whatever you want.

Replace: Hitting this causes the current settings to replace the currently selected list item

Delete: Deletes the currently selected preset item from the list

Save: This will create a new preset item using current settings and the name that appears in the name field above.

Rename: Will change only the name of the currently selected item on the list to the name in the Name text field.

Use Settings: After you have selected an item on the list, hit this button to change current settings to the ones previously stored using that name.

Make Default: Hitting this button will cause the current settings to be saved with the name Default. This Default setting is loaded when you launch InDesign.

Add to Fit to list: Hitting this button will cause the current settings to be saved to the appropriate Fit to pop-up menu. This can then be conveniently accessed from the scale tab. To remove an item from the menu, you must remove it from the list.

Revert All: Hitting this will revert all stored settings back to the way they were before you opened the ProScale Dialog.

UNDOING A SCALING ACTION

Whenever you scale a selection, you can undo as you normally would by using the Undo Menu Command or the Command-Z equivalent. You can the Redo the Scaling with the same command. Once you move or alter items, scaling can not be undone. NOTE: Document scaling can not be undone. Use Revert to Saved in this case.

USING THE SCALING TOOL

Whenever boxes are selected, you have the option to scale them manually using the scaling tool. When the tool is activated, a bounding box will appear around the selection. You may then resize the selection just as you would any other InDesign box. To scale proportionally, hold Shift while resizing. To perform the scaling action press RETURN on the keyboard. All items are scaled using your current settings in the ProScale Dialog.

The “Use Settings” Button Use this button whenever you simply want to set parameters for use with the tool without actually scaling anything.

REPEAT SCALING

Often times, you will select something, scale it, select something else and want to scale it the exact same way without going to the dialog. ProScale remembers your last scaling percentages so all you do is select the new item(s) and click on the ProScale Tool while holding down the Option key (Control Key on Windows).

SCALING LINKED TEXT

There are many considerations associated with scaling linked text boxes which ProScale deals with in most cases. Depending on how you scale and the various insets and outsets of the boxes involved, text may reflow slightly.

SCALING TIP: If you encounter problems scaling, try breaking your scaling into smaller chunks or manually scaling large pictures (file size).

Most off the Fit To functions treat page size as that area inside the margins. If you want to scale items to the edge of the page you can always set your margins to zero, temporarily.

Preparation

IMPORTANT: FIRST REMOVE ANY OLD VERSIONS OF THE PROSCALE AS THIS WILL CAUSE CONFLICTS IN InDesign!

Installation—PLEASE READ THIS BEFORE USING!!!

MAC:

Unless it’s a DEMO version, activate any GLUON by launching the GLUON Activator, provided. This is not necessary for DEMOs. Place all GLUON Plugins in the Plugins folder inside the InDesign folder. This process must be repeated for each machine upon which you want to use GLUONS. Once you have activated a machine for one GLUON, this machine will run all GLUONS so you do not need to repeat the process when you get new GLUONS. IMPORTANT: GLUONS will not operate if the above activation procedure is not followed! Please keep the GLUON Activator in a safe place. You may need it again if the System reinstalled.

WINDOWS:

First read the Readme file. Then, double-click the Setup.exe and follow the instructions.

Copyright Notice

ProScale™ and accompanying instructions are copyrighted. You have purchased the right to use this program on no more than the number of computers for which you have purchased copies of this software. It is a felony to modify, sell or in any way distribute copies of ProScale ID™ in any form without prior written or verbal consent from GLUON, Inc. You may make archival backups of this program for use in accordance with the above copyright notice.

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