In Publisher: how do I tile an image across an area?

[bobdobbs]

I'm designing a page template.

I have a tileable image.
I want to tile this image across a rectangular area.

How can I do this?

[carl123]

If you search the Publisher help for "Tile" does the information presented there not do what you want to do?

[GarryP]

You can use the Gradient Tool and select the Bitmap fill type from the Context Toolbar.

The bitmap that you use for such a fill will need to be taken from storage rather than the document itself.

[bbrother]

1 hour ago, bobdobbs said:

I want to tile this image across a rectangular area.

If I understand correctly, there are two ways to do this:

Method A:

1. You can create several shapes
2. Combine them into one shape using geometry functions
3. Then convert the resulting shape into a picture frame and place the image in it.

Method B:

It is very similar to method A, but you don't convert the shape to an image frame, instead you place the image as child layer and take advantage of the image being clipped to the shape bounds.

See video below ↓

 

 

[thomaso]

29 minutes ago, bbrother said:

two ways to do this

… and a third with the tiles as cropping mask for the image layer. The group's elements don't need to be converted to curves. With "Lock Children" activated the image gets transformed independently of its nested mask.

[bbrother]

4 minutes ago, thomaso said:

and a third with the tiles as cropping mask

Nice @thomasso. I didn't even think about this possibility.

[firstdefence]

I think @bobdobbs needs to clarify whether it's a pattern tiling effect or a single image gridded.