rusty5 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Mac Publisher beta #292 I've been exploring Publishers handling of images. I created a test page, added an image and selected Convert to Picture Frame. This worked as expected. I decide I no longer wanted the picture frame so went back to the contextual menu to look for a "Remove Picture Frame" option, which does not appear to be an option. So out of curiosity I selected Convert to Text Frame, which crashes Publisher every time. My questions: Does an option to "Remove Picture Fame" make sense? And shouldn't "Convert to Text Frame" be grayed out? Is there ever a time when a Picture Frame would be converted to a Text Frame? Just being curious. Convert to Picture Frame.mp4 rusty - Macintosh: macOS Big Sur 11.1. Memory 16 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 What you can do: you can go to the layers list, release the child of the picture frame from the parent-child-relation, and delete the picture frame afterwards. Picture-Frame.mov Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A_B_C Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 Convert to Text Frame and Convert to Text Path both crash Publisher immediately, when applied to a picture frame. Confirmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty5 Posted April 11, 2019 Author Share Posted April 11, 2019 6 hours ago, A_B_C said: What you can do: you can go to the layers list, release the child of the picture frame from the parent-child-relation, and delete the picture frame afterwards. Deleting the picture frame layer does indeed solve the problem. However it doesn't seem nearly as intuitive, or as elegant, as just right clicking and selecting Remove Picture Fame : ) rusty - Macintosh: macOS Big Sur 11.1. Memory 16 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fde101 Posted April 11, 2019 Share Posted April 11, 2019 17 hours ago, rusty5 said: Does an option to "Remove Picture Fame" make sense? Are you trying to extract the picture from the frame, discarding the frame in the process, or convert the frame to a non-frame (and discard the picture in the process)? I think both options would be nice to have (and convert text frame to non-frame also), but neither is currently present. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty5 Posted April 12, 2019 Author Share Posted April 12, 2019 22 hours ago, fde101 said: Are you trying to extract the picture from the frame, discarding the frame in the process, or convert the frame to a non-frame (and discard the picture in the process)? I haven't been trying to create anything to involved, just learning the program. So in this case, all I was attempting to do is discard the frame, leaving the picture in tact. Essentially returning to the original state before converting to a picture frame. rusty - Macintosh: macOS Big Sur 11.1. Memory 16 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Jon P Posted April 16, 2019 Staff Share Posted April 16, 2019 Thanks for reporting this, populated picture frames crashing when converting to text frames should hopefully be fixed in an upcoming beta. Serif Europe Ltd. - www.serif.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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