Image Placement Workaround/Trick

[Chris26]

There has been a lot of talk about image placement on this forum and I for one agree with the frustrating issue surrounding Image frames.  I agree that affinity has some nice options especially for re-sizing proportionally and other nifty things you can do. ( Although I wonder about their interpolation policy when enlarging or downsizing, indesign has the option of changing the interpolation in the preferences panel depending which edit you want to do)  Any, nevermind affinity is very good.

 

Back to the picture frame business; An option to 'Fit Frame to Content' is something I desperately need and have spent a whole hour and two buckets of coffee and talking to birds to figure this out.  My work-around went like this, this only FITS FRAME TO IMAGE', not the other way around:

1.  Select the rectangular Shape tool.

2. Select the Layer drop down menu, and 'Convert to Picture Frame'  Not Image frame.

3. Select place Image tool, yes select Image tool, not picture frame tool

4. Double click on your image

5. This step is important, otherwise the rest will not work, try missing thisstep and see what happens, You have to move that image a few mm, a microscopic mil to the left or right orr up or down whichever you want, just move the image slightly then return the image to its original position.

6. Now you can click ONCE outside the whole frame to de-select that frame.  Now Re-select that frame by clicking inside it.

7. Now move the left or right handle on the frame and the frame can be moved independently of your image.

OK, so why the fuss, well, I have to have two documents, one for all my content pages and another for the cover.  So I have an inside back cover with half my image on the right and half my image on the left which happens to be my last page in my other content document.  Naturally I need this image at actual size, and need it to be perfectly aligned when opening the magazine.  Bt there are many other reasons why one needs to be able to do this.   A fit frame to content would be a handy little button.

So all I need right now is for some smart geeky know it all to tell me that he can move frames independently of the image in a couple of clicks and I have wasted an hour. 

[jmwellborn]

43 minutes ago, Chris26 said:

 

So all I need right now is for some smart geeky know it all to tell me that he can move frames independently of the image in a couple of clicks and I have wasted an hour. 

Still laughing.  Now know what I am doing this Sunday.   Yesterday my dog nearly murdered me while I wrangled strokes around text frames converted from shapes.   In the end, it was so simple!    And as usual, when I had it figured out, I thought “Stupid me.  Hooray Publisher!”