Automatically rotate image on import to best for picture frame.

[hdp]

Hi there, I use Publisher on Mac and iPad, and I have not been able to figure this out on either.

When I draw a picture frame in landscape format, and then place an image that is in portrait format into it, how do I get Publisher to automatically rotate the image to best fit the frame? I know that I can double-click the content after the fact and rotate it, but when I'm placing a large number of images it becomes quite tedious – it would be simpler to tell Publisher to automatically rotate the image for best fit.

Am I just missing it, or is there no such option?

[MickRose]

Hi @hdp - why don't you place the portrait images on the pages but not in picture frames. Then select all the images you want, rotate them, then convert them to picture frames. If some of the images are not to be rotated, them I doubt if that could be done other than manually.

[hdp]

Hi @MickRose, thanks for the quick reply. 

I need to print out loads of images for my daughter's art projects, and I have set up sheets with 6x4 picture frames for this purpose: she sends me the pictures, I drop them into the frames, and off they go to print. That seems like a quick and lazy way of doing it, but if I have to import all the images in the wrong orientation into the frames and then rotate them one at a time, then the whole idea of a template becomes rather redundant.

What might be possible, and I will have to test this, is to place them all as pictures (not in frames), rotate them and resize them while they are all still selected – I just have to test whether I can specify a size for each image as opposed to the bounding box of all the images.

I'm off to do a quick test, thanks for the idea.

[hdp]

14 minutes ago, Circulus said:

Open them first in say xnview and change the rotation there in batch and then import them into publisher.

Thanks @Circulus, that would make sense if they were all the same orientation, but they come in mixed.

In the end, the simplest was to create a new document and to set up guides: one to create a 4x6 box and one to create a 6x4 box. This way, I can place the images by dragging either a portrait or landscape box, and I can see in the preview pane which orientation the image is in to draw the appropriate box.

Having an option to automatically rotate to fit the picture frame would have been simpler, but this is not too hard to do either.