move picture in frame

[HarryW]

I cannot find a simple way to move an image (vector or raster) inside the picture frame. I do ads and brochures with lots of images and need an easy way to change size and position inside the frame. This is not covered in the tutorial. How about a grab tool for this? I think we're all tired of comparisons with InDesign, but their space-plus-drag and the brown crop frame lines are a good way to do it.

[MickRose]

Have you tried double clicking the picture frame?

[HarryW]

Thank you, Mick!

Double-clicking does it: Side handles distort, corner handles constrain. Now, I hate to push things, but is there a window or panel that will show reduction and enlargement or X and Y axis distortion so that when I replace the color image (for Web) with a B&W version (for 1/C print) I can maintain size and crop? Or is there a preference somewhere?

[walt.farrell]

43 minutes ago, HarryW said:

Now, I hate to push things, but is there a window or panel that will show reduction and enlargement or X and Y axis distortion so that when I replace the color image (for Web) with a B&W version (for 1/C print) I can maintain size and crop?

Not that I know of. However, when the 1.7 versions of Designer and Photo are available (and assuming you own those apps) you should be able to click on the Designer or Photo persona from Publisher and work on that color picture in-place to make it B&W. That would eliminate the need to replace it.

(Alternatively, you might have success simply changing the  Publisher document format to Gray from RGB, or using a grayscale color profile when printing.)

[MickRose]

11 hours ago, HarryW said:

when I replace the color image (for Web) with a B&W version (for 1/C print) I can maintain size and crop?

Why don't you use the Replace Image button on the context toolbar to change from web image to new b/w image? The size & cropping seem to stay the same. Or maybe you could use the Layer Adjustment/Black & White. It depends on what you'll be doing with the b/w file. Or as walt.farrell says use the File/Document Setup/Colour Format/Grey 8.

[walt.farrell]

5 hours ago, MickRose said:

Or maybe you could use the Layer Adjustment/Black & White

I had forgotten that possibility. Thanks.

[HarryW]

On 9/25/2018 at 2:58 AM, MickRose said:

Why don't you use the Replace Image button on the context toolbar to change from web image to new b/w image? The size & cropping seem to stay the same. Or maybe you could use the Layer Adjustment/Black & White. It depends on what you'll be doing with the b/w file. Or as walt.farrell says use the File/Document Setup/Colour Format/Grey 8.

When I "Replace Image" I can insert the B&W version but the repro size and crop aren't retained.

[MickRose]

Are the resolution and size of the b/w and colour images the same? Is the Properties of the colour picture set to "None"?  If they are different I would expect strange things to happen. On my machine I have cropped, scaled and sheared a placed colour image within a picture frame, changed it to greyscale in P/shop and then used the Replace image button. It looks the same (almost) apart from the colour.

[Old Bruce]

2 hours ago, MickRose said:

Are the resolution and size of the b/w and colour images the same? Is the Properties of the colour picture set to "None"?  If they are different I would expect strange things to happen. On my machine I have cropped, scaled and sheared a placed colour image within a picture frame, changed it to greyscale in P/shop and then used the Replace image button. It looks the same (almost) apart from the colour.

I just checked and if you do the replace from the Resource Manager it works but not if you use the Replace button on the Context Toolbar. Interestingly the replacing from the Resource Manager allows the cropping scaling and what all to be carried over to a different image file not just the same one edited and saved.

[MickRose]

48 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I just checked and if you do the replace from the Resource Manager it works but not if you use the Replace button on the Context Toolbar

That sounds like a Mac bug. It works on my Windows 7 platform, though it sounds like it might not be working for HarryW (Mac or PC?).

[HarryW]

It seems to replace at the same size and crop only if I double-click on the image first, and then instead of seeing "replace image" I see "replace document" instead. The second time I tried, it didn't work but the third time it worked just fine, and back to "replace image".

I think I'll wait for further upgrades and then revisit this issue...

Thank you all for your help.