I, too, would find an autoresize option useful. When you have a very large imported object you have to zoom out to find its extension, then grab it and make it smaller: you almost never get to the desired size at the first shot if the page is a tiny rectangle in the middle of your monitor, mostly covered by the huge object you're resizing. And snapping often just makes it worse if you've got a tangle of possible targets in a very small area so no real chance to catch the desired one unless you're a sniper. Having an option to resize any big object to the page size would put it in a reasonable scale to deal with with almost no effort required, then you can easily have your first real shot directly to your snapping target. I think I'd map a shortcut too. A note: to be useful for my use case, the aspect ratio of the object should be preserved so it's made to fit in the page as to be completely enclosed in the document's area (in this cases I'm usually dealing with pictures, which I don't want to be distorted). On the other hand, I suppose that someone else could otherwise find more useful to have a non aspect-ratio-conservative fit; so I guess that there should be an option about this.
IMHO speaking about cropping is appropriate only when you already have complete control of the ratio between the original just imported object's size (as it is) and the drawing size, which is not a common case, I suppose; and if you have such control then resizing is just a matter of scaling to a known, or easily obtainable, percentage: not a big issue to deal with.
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