## Manipulating graphic items

You can manipulate graphic items in a variety of ways, including: resizing: cropping, panning, and transforming them.

With pass-through graphics the graphic item needs to be the correct size for the graphics. If the graphic item is too small to display the graphic it will be displayed as a blue cross and will not be exported when the site is published.

### To resize a graphic item

- Drag the graphic item by one of its selection handles using the Select tool:

When you release the mouse button the graphic will be resized:

You can constrain the graphic item to a square by holding down [Shift], or resize the graphic preserving the aspect ratio by holding down [Shift] [Option].

By default, resizing a graphic item does not affect the size and position of the graphic it contains. Alternatively, you can specify the resizing behavior; see Resizing graphics.

### To fit or scale a graphic within the graphic item

- Select the graphic item.
- Open the Item menu, choose Graphic, then choose one of the following options from the submenu:

### To position a graphic within the graphic item

Option | Description
Original Size | Scales the graphic to the original size.
Fit Box to Graphic | Scales the graphic item to fit the current size of the graphic.
Center | The graphic is centered within the graphic item.
Scale to Box | The graphic is scaled to the size of the graphic item.
Scale and Pad | The graphic is scaled to the size of the graphic item keeping its original proportions.
Scale Up | The graphic is enlarged by 5% within the graphic item.
Scale Down | The graphic is reduced by 5% within the graphic item.

- Select the graphic item.

A panning handle is displayed in the middle of the graphic:

- Move the mouse pointer over the panning handle until the pointer changes to a grabber hand.
- Drag the graphic to its new position:

### To position a graphic numerically

- Select the graphic item.
- Open the Item menu and choose Modify..., or double-click the graphic item.

The Graphic dialog box displays information about the graphic.

- Click the Graphic tab and enter the required horizontal and vertical offset values:

The offsets are measured from the top left corner of the graphic item.

### To transform a graphic item

- Select one of the transform tools:

- Click the item to display the resize handles on its border.
- Drag one of the resize handles to transform the item:

- When you release the mouse button the item will be redrawn transformed:

### To transform a graphic item numerically

- Select the graphic item.
- Open the Item menu and choose Transform....

The following dialog box allows you to specify a transform for the item and/or its content:

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