Selecting the Scale to Fit option allows Pyramid to re-size the selected visual to fit its container in Publish Lite and when the publication is built. This is typically useful where the visual is larger than the space available in its container and only part of the visual is visible without scaling; for example, if you have a large Matrix Grid with lots of columns of data and you prefer to scale the visual down than to re-size the container on the canvas.
Scale to Fit only applies to Grids. All graphical visual types (pie charts, bar charts, line and area charts) re-size to fit their containers, regardless of this option.
Enable or disable Scale to Fit
This option is selected from the overhead ribbon, when you have one or more visuals selected on the canvas:
- Select Scale to Fit to re-size the visual automatically to fit its container. With this option selected, re-sizing the panel on the canvas causes the visual content to be re-sized along with its container.
- Clear the Scale to Fit option to return the visual to its default size.
Tip: When you are designing your publication, you might want to toggle this option on and off to ensure that the whole visual is visible in the container.
Example: Scale to Fit a Matrix Grid
- Add a Matrix Grid to your publication.
- Select the visual and then Scale to Fit.
- With Scale to Fit enabled, re-size the panel. The grid scales accordingly:
- To return to the default settings, click Scale to Fit again.
By default, if the Grid is too large to be shown, some content is simply "off the page." In the following case, there should be eight columns but the fifth is cut off prematurely (green arrow). There should also be a totals row, but this is not visible at all.
The Grid is automatically re-sized to fit the available space. Note that this shrinks the fonts throughout, resulting in the extra columns and row being visible in the panel:
Interaction with Miniature visuals
If you have a grid with Scale to Fit enabled and Miniature visuals disabled; when you reduce the size of your visual below the level of visibility, you might see the Can't Scale Visual warning:
This warning means that your visual can no longer be reasonably scaled to fit its container. If you see this warning, you should take one of the following actions:
- Disable Scale to Fit. This stops Pyramid from trying to scale the contents of the visual to fit its container. The content of the container may end up too big to be shown on the page.
- Enable Miniature visuals. This allows Pyramid to replace the visual with a miniature visual tile.
- Use the drag handles to make the container larger, allowing more of the visual to be shown.