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Hi, I'm using the latest release version of Publisher on mac OS 12.6.2. Hardware acceleration is turned on. I've tested with a new document, as well as quitting the app, restarting, then opening a new document. When I set a picture frame's scaling to "None", that setting isn't honored when using "Replace File" or when dragging a new file into the picture frame. Instead, it does a min fit based on the bounding box of the outgoing file for some reason. Example: I create a 1x1" picture frame with scaling set to "none" and drag a 2x1.25" file into it. The central 1x1" area shows. I drag a 2x2" file into the same picture frame, expecting its central 1x1" to show, but it's placed at 1.25x1.25" (62.5% scale), showing more than its central 1x1" area. It's being min fit into the 2x1.25" bounding box of the previous file. If I drag the 2x1.25" file back into the frame, it's now min fit to the 1.25" width of the outgoing file, and its height becomes 0.781". If I keep repeating this process, the area used for the file within the frame gets progressively smaller. I've attached test files to recreate the issue with. The "none" scaling setting works as expected (place the file at its native size and crop to the frame) when the frame is empty (either the placed file was deleted or the frame is newly created), so I'm not sure why the replace behavior is different. It feels like there's an invisible container between the outgoing file and the frame, and the incoming file is being min fit to that? If there is, the constraints for the file aren't editable, so there's no way to control that. I can get most of the desired behavior by placing a file, masking it with a rectangle, and disabling all constraints on the file, but then I lose the drag and drop functionality of frames. Hope this can get fixed. Thanks! 2x2.pdf 2x125.pdf

tl:dr: The screengrab should explain it already. Experimenting with different Images in a pinned down layout and being able to easily switch them out (e.g. for a retouched version) without changing the placement and aspect ratio is very important. It should work the same whether you are using the resource manager, using the replace-button or dragging it in from finder. (which, for me, is the fastest way when working visually) But it does not. Obviously this is implemented in different ways... And the drag n'drop feature has (a) bug(s). As there currently is no beta for publisher I cannot test if this is addressed already with the upcoming 1.9.4 RCs Bildschirmvideo aufnehmen 2021-05-17 um 15.17.51.mov

Hi! Seems like a minor bug, but both seem to behave differently. So i placed a linked PDF, single page file in a new document per drag&drop, set to Passthrough and the Page box to use the BleedBox. I converted the linked document layer to a picture frame, so i can use strokes as it helps having cut guide lines. Now if i select the linked PDF and press the Replace Document button, selecting a different file with same measures and bleed, thinks work as expected and the new file pops in place. If i drag&drop it in there on the other hand, it also gets the new document to pop in, but this time the Page Box got reset to TrimBox and it got scaled up to fit in the picture frame. V 1.9.2.1035 PS.: Is there a function to set the Page Box to BleedBox as default, for placed files?