How To Scale Floor Plan In Indesign

Tutorial rotate and scale a scanned floor plan in adobe photoshop.

How to scale floor plan in indesign.

Scale tool so last but not least we have an actual scale tool in our adobe indesign tool bar for this one we select the frame we want to scale then click on the scale tool you can then just drag the corner to make it bigger and smaller. Select an object to scale then go to the reference point selector in the control panel and select the point that you want the object to resize from. Place the original plan as a pdf or jpeg in the background 50 opacity and lock it. For example if you opened a document from a previous version of indesign that has non 100 scaling values or you have scaled an object with the adjust scaling percentage preference setting selected.

With the adobe indesign frame tool you can also click once to change the point you scale from before you. The scale tool is under the free transform tool on the toolbar click hold and select to bring it to the top level. I made a lot of floor plans with indesign. Go to the toolbar and double click the scale tool to open the options.

However you ll often get a scan or even worse a fax of your floor plan. It is super easy to make true to scale plans there. Set the desired percentage and click copy. As i know everything in indesign but never used illustrator for example it was much easier for me to do it there.