Hey,
Does corel have any feature to regularly scale a rotated object, e.g. rectangle? When I rotate a rectangle, handles remain orthogonal, so after that I can only stretch it orthogonally. I'd like to still have option to scale the rectangle along its sides, with no stretching.
I was trying Free transform: Scale, but nope. This won't do.
I've seen similar questions asked in this forum long years ago so I decided to refresh the subject, as perhaps something new came out. I am using corel X5.
For built-in CorelDRAW capabilities, look at the Object Coordinates docker.
It can do some stuff that otherwise can't be done with any built-in tools.
Some things don't seem to work as I would expect in the docker. I might change information in a field, but not see the "Replace object" button become activated until I've clicked into some other field of the docker. That's OK - I know that it has to have some way of knowing that I have changed a value - but my complaint is that not all "other fields of the docker" seem to trigger that refresh.
If I change the value for the width of a rectangle, it's not sufficient to click into the field for the height of the rectangle - but clicking in the "x" or "y" field triggers the refresh needed to activate the button.
Like many things in CorelDRAW, it shows promise, but feels sort of half-baked - and never gets any further attention from Corel.
Sure, I see it. Thanks.
Next to the "height" and "width" fields for a Rectangle, there are also buttons that activate modes in which height and width can be edited interactively. Again, feels clunky to me, but it's there.
Interactively editing a rotated rectangle is one of those tasks where Adobe Illustrator embarrasses CorelDRAW.