Action buttons disabled in Resource Manager

[walt.farrell]

Steps to recreate:

1. File > New, "Prefer Embedded" for the image option, and press OK

2. Use the Place Image tool to put an image on the page. (Do not use a picture frame.)

3. Document > Resource Manager...

I get:

Note that it appears that the file is selected, but the action buttons at the bottom are grayed out. Note, too, that the "original size", etc, are blank, so maybe the file is not really selected. So try clicking on the file, even double-clicking on the file, but that does not help.

Click outside the Resource Manager dialog, and the file highlight goes away. Then  clicking on the file causes the file to be really selected, the buttons become active, etc.

Cause: What is happening is that the file is highlighted in the Resource Manager because the picture is still selected on the page. But it is not really selected in the Resource Manager dialog. If you click outside the Resource Manager dialog you unselect the picture on the page. That makes it un-highlighted in Resource Manager, and then clicking on it in Resource Manager will select it.

Additional notes:

1. This happens only if you place exactly 1 image, and do not use a picture frame.
2. If you place two images (without a picture frame) the second one (being selected on the page) will be highlighted in Resource Manager (though not really selected there). However, because you have two images, you can click on the other one which will select it for use within the dialog.
3. If you use a picture frame, even with just 1 image, it will not be highlighted when you go into Resource Manager, and the problem does not occur.

 

[Chris_K]

H Walt.farrell

Thanks for this it is a known issue with having an image selected before going into the resource manager. With the resource manager you can click off the image on the page to deselect it then you can select it in the resource manager

Cheers