Drawing Frame

Each placed Drawing has a Frame. Use it in two ways:

  • Fit Frame to Drawing to include the full content of its source view
  • Manually Resize the Frame to limit the visible content (and optionally crop it out)

Why Crop the Drawing Content?

If you resize a Drawing Frame, you can optionally crop out the unseen Drawing content and delete it from the Drawing cache. Cropped content no longer has to be checked or refreshed (until it is restored). Thus, cropping Drawing content reduces file size and can speed up Drawing update.

Frame editing and Drawing crop features work the same for all types of Drawings, including those with an external source.

Cropped content can be restored at any time, as long as its source remains available.

Topics in this section:

Fit Frame to Drawing

Resize Frame and Crop Content

Restore Cropped Content

Crop Drawing(s) to Frame Command

Uncrop Drawing(s) Command

Fit Frame to Drawing

By default, the Drawing Frame fits to the full Drawing content: The Fit Frame to Drawing control is active, in Drawing Settings or Info Box.

This Drawing Frame is shown with a solid line: it is not cropped.

Figure 1. Fit Frame to Drawing (Solid Line)
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Resize Frame and Crop Content

  1. Select any edge of the Frame and use pet palette editing commands to modify it.
  2. The Manually resized frame button is now activated (in Drawing Settings or the Info Box).
  3. By default, Crop Drawing to Frame is also checked: As you resize the Frame, the Drawing content is cropped accordingly.

The Drawing Frame of a cropped Drawing is shown with a dotted line.

Cropped content can be restored at any time, as long as its source remains available. (see below)

Figure 2. Cropped to Frame (Dotted Line)
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Restore Cropped Content

On a selected cropped Drawing:

  1. Drag the Frame to the desired position.
  2. The cropped content is indicated by the shaded area. The Update to Frame command appears.

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  3. Click Update to Frame. The masked (cropped) drawing content is now restored.
  4. If you continue editing the Frame, the command changes to Full Update.
    • Click Full Update to update the full Drawing content in the background. All of the masked-out content is now displayed, so you do not have to keep updating while you edit the shape of the Frame.

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 Crop Drawing(s) to Frame Command

For a selected Drawing with a Manually resized Frame, which is not cropped:

Use the Crop Drawing(s) to Frame command from:

  • Context menu of the Drawing or the Drawing’s Navigator item
  • Context menu of the Layout tab
  • Info Box
  • Document > Drawings menu
  • Drawing Settings (Frame panel)

The Drawing status is now Cropped (as shown in the Info Box and Drawing Manager.) Any Drawing content that falls outside the current extent of the Frame is deleted from the Drawing cache.

The Drawing Frame of a cropped Drawing is shown with a dotted line.

Note: Cropped status can be set as the Drawing Tool default, in Drawing Settings or the Info Box.

Uncrop Drawing(s) Command

For any selected, cropped Drawing(s):

Use the Uncrop Drawing(s) command from:

  • Context menu of the Drawing, or the Layout tab
  • Info Box
  • Document > Drawings menu
  • Drawing Settings (Frame panel): Uncheck Crop Drawing to Frame

The Drawing status is now Uncropped (as shown in the Info Box and Drawing Manager.) Its Frame is now Manually Resized.

  • For an Auto-update Drawing: The Uncrop Drawing(s) command restores previously cropped content to the Drawing
  • For a Manual-update Drawing: To restore cropped content, use the Uncrop Drawing(s) command, then update the drawing.

A Manually Resized Drawing Frame is shown with a dashed line:

Figure 3. Manually Resized Frame (Dashed Line) - Drawing in Uncropped Status
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