[Ipe-discuss] Turning a trapezoid into a rectangle

[Olivier Devillers]

Le 23/09/15 10:50, Pierre Ganty a écrit :
> I often run into the following issue.
> I want to put a box around a figure or piece of text and so I draw a 
> rectangle around it.
> Eventually I make slight changes to the box content and I need to 
> resize the rectangle.
>
> Option 1 is to scale and translate the rectangle but it might require 
> several iterations before getting it right.
> Option 2 is to edit the rectangle and use the grid but the result 
> might be too coarse

option 3
fix the origin at the upper left corner (snap to vertex + F1)
scale the bottom right corner
then fix the origin at the bottom right corner (snap to vertex + F1)
scale the upper left corner