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Editing Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes

Editing Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes

Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes can be you resize it larger, an empty space will
selected and edited using the edit handles, be created between that edge and the con-
the edit toolbar, and their specification tents; if you resize it smaller, the contents
dialogs. will be cropped.
Imported pictures, metafiles, and PDFs are
placed on the Current CAD Layer by default; Using Dimensions
but once imported, these objects can be Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes can be
placed on any layer. See “Layers” on page relocated relative to other objects with
184. precision using dimensions.

In the Specification Dialog To avoid changing the selected object’s
aspect ratio, make sure you choose to move
Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes can be the entire object rather than the selected
customized in their specification dialog. See: edge. See “Moving Objects Using
• “Picture File Box Specification Dialog” Dimensions” on page 479.
on page 1148
Using the Edit Tools
• “Metafile Box Specification Dialog” on
page 1152 A selected Picture, Metafile, or PDF Box can
• “PDF Box Specification Dialog” on page be edited in a variety of ways using the
1154 buttons on the edit toolbar. See “The Edit
Toolbar” on page 38.
Using the Mouse
Point to Point Resize
Pictures, Metafiles, and PDF Boxes have edit
handles similar to other box-based objects. A selected picture, metafile, or PDF
See “Editing Box-Based Objects” on page box can be resized in either the X or Y
236. direction with the Point to Point Resize edit
tool.
• The corner Resize handles behave do not
behave the same for Pictures, Metafiles, To use the Point to Point Resize tool
and PDF Boxes as they do for CAD
boxes, however. If you drag a corner han- 1. Select a picture box, metafile box, or
dle of one of these objects while the PDF box.
Default Edit Behavior is active, its con-
tents will resize and height to width ratio 2. Click the Point to Point Resize edit
will be retained. button.
• If you drag an Extend handle along a 3. Click on two points in the selected
Picture, Metafile, or PDF Box’s edge, the object’s box area that have a known dis-
contents of the box will not be resized. If tance between them.

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