Il giorno 15-01-2010 17:13, Roy McCoy ha scritto:

> My discovery on black/white tool switching, again: with the black-
> arrow tool selected, double-click on a graphic switches to the white-
> arrow tool, single-click changes from there to, uh, "the second white-
> arrow state",* double-click changes from there back to black-arrow tool.

What ID version are you talking about?
I have ID CS2, and it doesn't behave that way. :-(
(it would have been useful , though)
Maybe is it depending on some preference setting?


BTW, I have always found those arrow tools puzzling and confusing. :-/
Coming from Freehand (it uses a unique arrow tool), and XPress (it uses two
tools for "container" and "content", like ID, but in a different way).

For example, when I change the "container" (box) size using the numerical
palette, it changes the content, too! (using either arrows)
(e.g.: I make the box wider, and the logo inside become wider, too)
This should happen when using (selecting with) the white arrow (content),
not with the black one (container)!
This doesn't happen when I'm using the arrow to directly move the box
handles, but I like using the numerical palette for precise sizing.
So I usually do this: I select the box with the black arrow, change the size
numerically, then switch to the white arrow, and reset the content size to
100%... :-(
(waaaay awkward)

Or, when I have "messed" with the box size (so the image size isn't 100%
anymore), when using the black arrow the numerical palette still shows 100%
(percentage scale).
So I have to switch to the white arrow, click again to the image, and only
then I can reset the scale to 100% (or whatever it was).

Is it an InDesign quirk this "ambiguity" between container and content?
Or am I doing something wrong? Is there something I'm missing?


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