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                    Fit an object to its frame
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                <div><div class="section"><p>When you place or paste an object into
a frame, it appears at the upper-left corner of the frame by default.
If the frame and its content are different sizes, you can use the
Fitting commands to achieve a perfect fit automatically.</p>
<p>Frame
alignment options apply to frames that contain either a graphic
or another text frame (text frames nested within another frame),
but they do not affect paragraphs inside a text frame—you control
alignment and positioning of text itself using the Text Frame Options
command and the Paragraph, Paragraph Styles, and Story panels.</p>
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<ol><li class="stepexpand"><span>Select the frame of the object.</span></li>
<li class="stepexpand"><span>Choose Object&#160;&gt; Fitting and one of the following
options:</span> <dl><dt class="dlterm">Fit Content To Frame</dt>
<dd>Resizes content to fit a frame and allows the content proportions
to be changed. The frame will not change, but the content may appear
to be stretched if the content and the frame have different proportions.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Fit Frame To Content</dt>
<dd>Resizes a frame to fit its content. The frame’s proportions are
altered to match the content proportions, if necessary. This is
useful for resetting a graphics frame that you accidentally altered.<div class="tip"><img src="images/tip_help.png" />To fit a frame to its content quickly, double-click
any corner handle on the frame. The frame resizes away from the
point you click. If you click a side handle, the frame resizes only
in that dimension.</div><div class="fignone"><img alt="" id="gh_fitto_frame" src="images/gh_fitto_frame.png" /><div class="figdesc">Aligning an object within a graphics frame </div><br /><dl><dt class="dlterm">A.</dt>
<dd>Original</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">B.</dt>
<dd>Frame
resized to fit content</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">C.</dt>
<dd>Content
resized to fit frame</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
</div></dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Center Content</dt>
<dd>Centers content within a frame. The proportions of the
frame and its content are preserved. The size of the content and
frame are unaltered.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Fit Content Proportionally</dt>
<dd>Resizes content to fit a frame while preserving the content
proportions. The frame’s dimensions are not changed. If the content
and the frame have different proportions, some empty space will
result.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p><dt class="dlterm">Fill Frame Proportionally</dt>
<dd>Resizes content to fill the entire frame while preserving
the content’s proportions. The frame’s dimensions are not changed.
If the content and the frame have different proportions, some of
the content will be cropped by the bounding box of the frame.</dd><p class="dlseparator"></p></dl>
 <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:  </span>The Fitting commands fit the outer edges of the content
to the center of the frame’s stroke. If the frame has a thick stroke
weight, outer edges of the content will be obscured. You can adjust
the frame’s stroke alignment to the center, inside, or outside of
a frame edge. (See <a href="WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6bfaa.html">Set strokes</a>.)</div>
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