postmadesign Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 In the latest Beta, the problem that the custom scaled picture in a frame loses its customized scale, which is good, however, there does not seem to be a way to scale the box with the content together. In indesign you use a modifier to scale the frame with the content, but publisher does not seem to have this option? I tried the option to "lock children" but this has no effect. The best option would be the solution used for text boxes, where I can either reframe just the frame, or the frame with the text. (see image) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac_heibu Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Right click onto the image frame and choose „Group“ This is new behaviour. Why? Don’t know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted September 17, 2018 Author Share Posted September 17, 2018 Does not make much sense to me. . . it seems more like a bug to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
postmadesign Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 Also I tried out the other options to rescale picture frames but they are also not working like they should: - Lock Children does not have any effect when I have one of the auto-resize options enabled. In my view this should enable me to resize the box without the image inside it. If it cannot, get rid of it. - I had a situation where I switched from custom scale to auto-scale. sometimes this put the image oddly off-center in the frame, and every time I rescale it. - I still need "fit image to frame" and "fit frame to image" options: these are essential especially if I want to make sure no parts of the image are cut off Picture frames are still pretty buggy and unpredictable: I hope you can fix this soon, as it is pretty essential. I love the work you have done on publisher. it still needs work, but it looks good, thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff MEB Posted September 18, 2018 Staff Share Posted September 18, 2018 Hi postmadesign, Thanks for your feedback and support. Regarding your points: 1. Lock children - I will pass this to the dev team/will try to get more info regarding its use with picture frames. 2. When you switch from None to a Scaled option the image size is adjusted accordingly to the width or height of the picture frame (depending on the scale option you picked) and placed/moved to the centre of the previous un-scaled image position. To ensure it's placed in relation to the centre of the picture frame click the centre anchor point in the picture frame properties dialog. 3. I agree it would be nice to have the fit options as well. Hope the dev team considers this for a future update/version. A Guide to Learning Affinity Software | Affinity Quick Reference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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