valerie1 Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Just how do you do this? InDesign - right click and you can make any size photo almost fit any proportion ........ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris26 Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 The most convenient way I find is to use the PICTURE FRAME TOOL not the image tool and then simple OPEN the image, not place. This will give you what you want to do I believe. Not the same method as indesign but I find it just as good as indesigns method to be honest. Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 3 hours ago, valerie1 said: Just how do you do this? InDesign - right click and you can make any size photo almost fit any proportion ........ If you use the Picture Frame tool and draw a frame the size you want, you can use the Place Image tool or File > Place... to put an image into the frame. The frame properties (in the context menu while the frame is selected) will control whether the image is scaled or not, and if so will provide you several options for how it should be scaled. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jackson Posted October 28, 2018 Share Posted October 28, 2018 On 10/12/2018 at 11:14 PM, walt.farrell said: If you use the Picture Frame tool and draw a frame the size you want, you can use the Place Image tool or File > Place... to put an image into the frame. The frame properties (in the context menu while the frame is selected) will control whether the image is scaled or not, and if so will provide you several options for how it should be scaled. I find this solution to be very clumsy confirm to right-click + Transform. For that matter, there seems to be no equivalent of right-click + Fitting, which I use so often. Actually this leads onto a broader issue: layout control is presently so limited - we are spoiled with the pixel-precise ability in ID to place/ position/ resize any component on a page. Yes, we have the basics here of alignment, spacing etc but I need precision. Hopefully, somebody will tell me I am missing something fundamental and I just need to to click a setting somewhere. ?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris26 Posted October 29, 2018 Share Posted October 29, 2018 19 hours ago, Peter Jackson said: we are spoiled with the pixel-precise ability in ID to place/ position/ resize any component on a page. Here is where you find the precision, in EDIT, PREFERENCES, you see here nudge distance set to pixels. Quote Microsoft - Like entering your home and opening the stainless steel kitchen door, with a Popup: 'Do you really want to open this door'? Then looking for the dishwasher and finding it stored in the living room where you have to download a water supply from the app store, then you have to buy microsoft compliant soap, remove the carpet only to be told that it is glued to the floor.. Don't forget to make multiple copies of your front door key and post them to all who demand access to all the doors inside your home including the windows and outside shed. Apple - Like entering your home and opening the oak framed Kitchen door and finding the dishwasher right in front you ready to be switched on, soap supplied, and water that comes through a water softener. Ah the front door key is yours and it only needs to open the front door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jackson Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Many thanks, Chris. I also dug out the Positioning and Transform Panel which gives me much of the right click precise control I was missing for placed graphics. It really is looking better and better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jackson Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 On 10/12/2018 at 11:08 PM, Chris26 said: The most convenient way I find is to use the PICTURE FRAME TOOL not the image tool and then simple OPEN the image, not place. This will give you what you want to do I believe. Not the same method as indesign but I find it just as good as indesigns method to be honest. True, I've focused on this now - which also solved another irritation: how to apply strokes to graphics. Peter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Jackson Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 On 10/12/2018 at 11:14 PM, walt.farrell said: If you use the Picture Frame tool and draw a frame the size you want, you can use the Place Image tool or File > Place... to put an image into the frame. The frame properties (in the context menu while the frame is selected) will control whether the image is scaled or not, and if so will provide you several options for how it should be scaled. Many thanks, I'm up to speed on this now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medical Officer Bones Posted November 2, 2018 Share Posted November 2, 2018 Currently picture frames in Publisher have no option to display invisible boundaries when the content is being edited (but from forcing matters by applying an actual stroke), nor is it possible to see the cropped parts of image content when dragging. Very awkward indeed compared to InDesign. I do hope they will add these features. In my opinion the trouble with the Affinity line is that many features, while good looking on the surface, fall a bit flat after the user digs a bit deeper in terms of basic workflow efficiency. Then again, the competition has had decades of user input to guide them, so it's a bit unfair to compare too much. Still, I'd like them to focus more on the small things, the foundation. And pay attention to the needs of higher level usage more: a fair number of rather essential things are severely lacking or completely missing. Well, I have patience. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffle Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 I am struggling too with image placement: I have a fixed frame (as defined in the master) and need to place various images. Depending of content I would like them to scale to width or height, but always proportional so that no distortion is introduced. How do I do that? Of course in InDesign you have the frame control box: fit proportionally and you're done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted November 12, 2021 Share Posted November 12, 2021 10 hours ago, Luftwaffle said: I am struggling too with image placement: I have a fixed frame (as defined in the master) and need to place various images. Depending of content I would like them to scale to width or height, but always proportional so that no distortion is introduced. How do I do that? Of course in InDesign you have the frame control box: fit proportionally and you're done. Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums. Don't the scaling options for Picture Frames handle that for you? Help: https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/pages/Media/pictureFrames.html Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro, version 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 17.4.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sonoma 14.4.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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