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fit image to frame – no context menu


KaiSp

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Hi there,

today I was trying to find a simple way to fit an image to a picture frame in Affinity Publisher in iPad. Something similar to „fit to frame“ in InDesign. 

I found a video tutorial on youtube, but the context menu shown there is missing in version 2.1.1. Instead there is a new section called „constraints“ within the transform panel. But these constraints have no effect on images or frames whatsoever.

I work as a media designer on print and non print projects in germany for more than 18 years now, mostly using Adobe products. I just want to fit or center an image inside a frame, which I feel is one of the most basic features.

What am I missing here, is there another way specific to affinity publisher to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Kai

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When you have the Place Image Tool selected, and have Placed an image into a Picture Frame, the Context Toolbar has several options that may be what you're looking for:

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1 hour ago, KaiSp said:

For some reason I was stuck in the menu to the right on the screenshot below.  

With a more complete screenshot I might be able to say more, but partial screenshots often omit critical information.

-- 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 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard 
Mac:  2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1

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That‘s ok, I simply didn‘t know I had to have place image tool selected for the context menu to show up, thank you for the advice.

The other menu seems to be more like a preset, telling empty picture frames how to behave when images are placed in them.

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