: Inkscape 0.91: Scaling several objects while keeping their original location This is something I can do with Illustrator, and that I would like to reproduce with Inkscape 0.91: I want to scale

@Caterina889

As your objects are identical you should consider making clones for your duplicates.


Make your object (the parent)
Duplicate as required: Edit - Clone - Create Clone (Alt+D)
Scale or otherwise redefine your parent object and watch the children follow suit.


The advantage of this approach is that you don't have to explicitly select all of the instances - they all get updated. Although there is a way to select the parent of a child object I find it more straightforward to create my parent objects off the page for simpler direct selection.

Of course my answer presumes that you want to scale all of your objects - if not you can always start out with clones and unlink those that you don't want affected by subsequent edits to the parent.

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@Reiling762

Ungroup your objects, if needed.
Object → Transform → Scale.
Select the desired scaling factor.
Check apply to each object separately.
Apply.

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