tillulen Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 17, 2020 Share Posted November 17, 2020 Thanks for including a description of your use-case. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.7, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 18, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hi @tillulen, I think you will be better off using constraints. You have much more control over content inside a container than you have using a picture frame within a picture frame. Regardless, the disappearing frame is a bug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tillulen Posted November 18, 2020 Author Share Posted November 18, 2020 Hi @Gabe. Thanks for the quick response. I’m already using constraints both with constraints groups and picture frames, but I’m by no means proficient with constraints yet. Is there any reason why I should prefer a constraints group with a single child to a picture frame? It looks like they are mostly interchangeable when the child is a regular object (not a raw image). Anyway, the bug also occurs when I use a constraints group instead of the outer picture frame. The inner picture frame within the group disappears as soon as I try to place something into it. Please let me know if you need a sample file for that case. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Gabe Posted November 19, 2020 Staff Share Posted November 19, 2020 16 hours ago, tillulen said: Anyway, the bug also occurs when I use a constraints group instead of the outer picture frame. The inner picture frame within the group disappears as soon as I try to place something into it. Please let me know if you need a sample file for that case. Yes please. it seems to be fine here with this set-up: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tillulen Posted November 20, 2020 Author Share Posted November 20, 2020 19 hours ago, Gabe said: Yes please. it seems to be fine here with this set-up: Weird, I cannot reproduce it now. It probably was some mistake on my part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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