Image and text skewing / distorting megathread

[esanabri]

... I still have issues in my setup:
Macbook pro
running Parallels Desktop 16, windows 10 and Xara 18.

The ALT (option) Key does not "flip/toggles" between stretch & scale - it only "crops" images.

[esanabri]

a small video without ALT key pressed and then with ALT key

(actually don't know how to attach a video - screen capture)...

[esanabri]

I guess the video did attach! ��

[handrawn]

I think that behaviour was modified in version 18 when the new blue/white dashed bounding boxes were introduced

I have those switched out and it seems to wok for me, provded the show selection bounds handles button is active

So hopefully someone else can help

[Actually at the moment I am using version 15.1 most of the time because of a totally unrelated issue with PDF import]

[esanabri]

Found it!
just needed to double clin ON THE OBJECT - now I can SQUISH!

WAS SO SIMPLE!!!

Thank you for your support

[handrawn]

yes that sounds familiar

glad you got it sorted

[bwood]

I’m well behind on this thread, but it did answer my question regarding text boxes which I use a lot. By user error I was skewing large text blocks. I made the text block, rotated the block, then somehow the block started skewing. The block was very large point size.
This happened a few times, and I just couldn’t figure out why. Think I must have double clicked the text block. Or something. . I’m a senior so entitled.