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Respective Scale (transforming from the center of multiple selected items)

Imagine being able to scale 50 icons up to 125% from their respective centers all at once.

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Sean Coolidge shared this idea · Feb 23, 2019 · Report… · Admin →

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AdminEgor Chistyakov (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded · Jun 1, 2024

The way to do exactly this is to use Object > Transform > Transform Each dialog.

Using it will scale (or rotate, or move) each selected top-level object separately, from a chosen reference point.

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CLS commented · August 10, 2020 8:19 PM · Report

This would absolutely be useful. Currently you have to either scale one object at a time, or you can scale them all but they will change position.

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