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Object Handling 85

Rotating objects in Resize Mode

It is possible to rotate and skew an object even if not in rotate mode. Using resize mode,
move the mouse pointer into the according small areas near the selection area handles
as illustrated above. The mouse pointer changes into a rotate or skew icon, showing you
that you are now able to rotate or skew the object by dragging with the mouse.

Scaling (resizing) objects

This is part of the SELECTOR TOOL.

Scale Line Widths button

The SCALE LINE WIDTHS button on the SELECTOR TOOL InfoBar is used in many operations
where the width and height of the selected objects are important. It controls whether the
line attributes (not just line widths) are taken into account when working out the size and
position of the selected object(s).

With the SCALE LINE WIDTHS button set, scaling an object also
scales its line widths. With this button unset, line widths remain
unchanged.

You can toggle this button during drags by clicking "/" on the numeric keypad.
If you have a rectangle with a 4 pixel line width, as you turn SCALE LINE WIDTHS on and off
you'll see that the X, Y W And H fields in the SELECTOR TOOL change as the effects of the
line width are included and excluded.

The following features are affected by SCALE LINE WIDTHS: