Steps to reproduce:
Create a document with a master page.
On the master page, create two picture frames at the same coordinates.
Using the Layers panel, drag one picture frame into the other so that it becomes the other frame’s content.
If you are using the attached file, start here.
On a regular document page, select the inner picture frame using the Layers panel.
Place an image into the inner picture frame.
Expected: the image would be placed.
Actual result: the inner picture frame disappears from the Layers panel as if it was deleted. Only the outer picture frame remains. The image is not placed on the page. The image is not found in the Resource Manager.
This is Publisher 1.8.5.703 on Windows 10.
I have a use case for using nested picture frames in a publication, so this is not just a weird corner case. I would like to use the inner picture frame to manually crop and rotate an original image and the outer frame to automatically fine-tune its dimensions to my grid as I’m experimenting with different grids and layouts. In that scenario, the inner frames would have scaling turned off and the outer frames would be set to Scale to Maximum Fit.
Nested picture frames on master page.afpub