Picture frame off-centre image placement problem / Publisher

[stevemarais]

Hi there. I cant find a solution to this so I'm starting a new topic. 

 

I'm on Publisher V2.2.1

I've got a document with several picture frames. If I populate these frames via the place image tool it works fine the first time. BUT THEN... If I want to replace an image with another image it places the images either off centre, or so off centre that it doesn't even show up in the picture frame. Then after placing all my images I have to go back and right click > anchor to centre of each image and THIS IS ANNOYING. 

And the next time I place images in the same open doc it happens AGAIN. Everything off centre. 

How do I fix this? Am I doing something wrong?

In the pics attached the blank squares are where new images have been inserted but they're so far off centre that you can't even see them. In the final screen grab you see the images placed but every time they end up off centre  

PS. I've been using affinity for a long time and this problem has only been occurring lately. 

Thanks so much!

Steve

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, stevemarais said:

BUT THEN... If I want to replace an image with another image it places the images either off centre, or so off centre that it doesn't even show up in the picture frame.

Can you clarify the steps you are taking when you do the replace operation, please?

[DWright]

Can you also let me know the properties that you are using for the picture frames

[stevemarais]

This is still happening and it's a year later. 

For clarity: 

 

1. I draw a picture frame. 

2. I click the place image tool, select the images I want to place, and place them. This all works great. 

BUT

If I change my mind, or if I want to replace an image, I click the place tool again, select the new images I want to consider using, and then when replace an image, the new one jumps to the side. It's impossible to get a decent preview of what I'm placing. 

 

This is particularly annoying since I often work with large frameworks where it's necessary to swap out images. 

I'm not using any properties for the picture frames. Some are scaled to max fit, some have custom crops. 

I'm attaching another screen grab. You can see the new image is jumping all the way to the bottom of the image frame, I can't even see the image when trying to replace it. 

 

Am I using the software oivcorrectly? 

 

 

[GarryP]

In your original post you had several picture frames but now you say you just have one but are selecting multiple images.

Picture Frame layers can only contain a single image.

Also you say you are using the "place image tool" and selecting multiple images. Are you using the Place Tool in the Tools Panel, or the "Replace image" button,  or something else?

Can you give us step-by-step reproducible workflow giving us the precise names of the things you are using and details at each step?

If you can record and share a full-screen video of you doing it then that would help.

Edited September 11, 2024 by GarryP
Clarification.

[carl123]

If it happens consistently in a document, can you upload that document to the forum

We don't need all the pages, just one page with a picture frame on it and it showing a misplaced image

[stevemarais]

It's impossible that it only happens to me. It also doesn't happen on every page, so I can't just export one page. The entire layout document will be several gigabytes. 

Right now, the only solution is to painstakingly remove each and every image previously placed in my template and before replacing with a new one. It really annoys me that perhaps I should to be doing all this work on InDesign instead. 

I do love publisher though. 

[stevemarais]

As requested, here's a screen recording. As you can see, sometimes it happens, sometimes it doesn't. I cannot figure out why this might be. 

[pbasdf]

Hi Steve,

Difficult to tell from the video, but could this be a result of Publisher applying the same scale, rotation and relative placement to the new image as was applied to the old image? That's certainly behaviour that I experience and have to remedy.

To save resetting them one by one, does this work:

1. Select the Picture Frame Tool (shortcut F)

2. Use Select --> Select Object --> Picture Frames (from the menu bar)

3. In the Context Tool Bar, select Properties and then set scaling and anchor for all the picture frames

 

[stevemarais]

Thanks so much for your feedback. The old images are centered and don't have any rotation added, that's why I find it so odd that publisher pushes replacement images off to the side. I'd expect the replacement image to adapt the scale of the one before it, sure, but often it gets pushed so far out of the picture frame that I can't even see the image I've placed. 

My documents are image heavy, I need the software to support image heavy layouts like it used to. 

I hope this is a bug that will be fixed at some point. It's been happening for over a year now, and V1 of publisher did not have this bug. 

I'll try your suggestion and let you know if it works