Proportional Scaling

[stachiab26900978]

Up until 2 weeks ago I was able to proportionally scale art and images by shift, dragging on the diagonal brown corner box. Suddenly, when I try to do that now, it will scale but it's not a constrained proportional scale. The image will proportionally scale if I type it in in the upper menu bar. I've tried uninstalling and then reinstalling InDesign, but get the same result. Any idea of what I'm doing wrong??

[winterm]

For proportional scale of placed items you need to use Ctrl(Cmd)+Shift+drag. Shift+drag will proportionally crop them. Works a bit differently on a native InDesign objects, though. Shift+drag, I mean.

[Barb Binder · Accepted solution]

Is the Shift key working correctly elsewhere in InDesign? For example, when drawing a rectangle, does the Shift key force a square?

We've been seeing other applications interfere with the modifier keys in InDesign. (Broswers, browser extensions, and anti-virus apps to name a few.) To see if that is it, reboot and only open InDesign. Consider the applications that auto-load as well.

[Colin Flashman]

The same thing was happening to me earlier in the year, and I thought I was losing my mind. However, not long after installing a patch for different reasons (header rows in tables would disappear if copied) the issue went away.

the patch is here: Troubleshoot issues after updating to InDesign CC 2017.1

[stachiab26900978]

Hi Barb, No, the Shift key doesn't seem to be working correctly. It's not forcing a square when drawing a rectangle.

I just tried installing the patch, mentioned by Colin and that hasn't helped.

[stachiab26900978 · Accepted solution]

Barb you solved it! I turned off my virus protection (Webroot) restarted the computer and now the shift key and proportional scaling is all back to normal.Thank you soooo much!

[Barb Binder]

That's great. I'm so glad I could help.

[magnush51018720]

Hi,

I had the exact same problem and I was helped by selecting something called "Pause secure keyboard entry" in my virus protection. The shift key started to work properly immediately.

[Barb Binder]

That’s new to me. What antivirus program are you using?

~Barb

[magnush51018720]

It's called Webroot SecureAnywhere. I have a mac.

[Barb Binder]

Thank you for that information.
~Barb