Tile image in frame

[cydonia195]

I have a lot of small repeatable tile images. I have added a large photo frame to a publisher page and I cannot find a way to tile the image in the fill of the image frame. There are a couple of fitment options, fit to min, max or stretch, but no Tiling option that I can find. Am I missing something?

[Old Bruce]

14 hours ago, cydonia195 said:

Am I missing something?

No, there is no way to do that in One image frame. There is a thing called Power Duplicate though, do a search in the forums for that or check the Designer videos for that phrase.

[carl123]

You can add a bitmap fill to a picture frame and tile it.

Is that what you want to do?

 

 

[gabriel_komorov]

Another trick you can use is create symbol from photo frame then duplicate it as much as you need. Replacing image in one of them will also change image in all others

[cydonia195]

carl123, Yes, that's exactly what I want to do. I did figure out that using the bitmap option will let me tile the image, however, I'm having a real hard time with the handles, which allow you to drag horizontally and vertically. I would really like to have a studio panel where I can simply choose to tile it at XX% instead of having to eye it.. 

Does anyone know if there is a control for this? To be able to specify the size of the tile, OR to lock the perspective height and width while dragging one of the handles?

[donkeymon]

I can't find how to do any of these things in Publisher now. Have all these features been removed?

[G13RL]

@donkeymon 

Unless I am mistaken, the symbols are not available in Publisher, you must switch to Designer to use them.
Another way to proceed (not necessarily faster) is to create the container with dimensions multiple of those of the photo (or to adapt those of the photo to those of the rectangle), place it in the upper right corner of the rectangle, convert it into curves. Take the "Node Tool" and move the corner nodes of the photo to those of the rectangle.
Then take "Fill Tool". In the contextual bar, change "Extend" from "Repeat" to "Wrap". The adjustment handles will be available if you want to change the layout of the fill.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, G13RL said:

Unless I am mistaken, the symbols are not available in Publisher, you must switch to Designer to use them.

They are usable via the Designer Persona in Publisher, too.

[loukash]

3 hours ago, G13RL said:

you must switch to Designer to use them

You must switch to Designer (persona) to create symbols. It doesn't even matter whether it's a afdesign, afphoto or afpub document.
You can copy symbols into any other document format or Affinity app and they will remain symbols.
Then you can use and duplicate them as you see fit.

A "symbol" is in fact just a special kind of a layer object, and it behaves exactly like that, i.e. you can move any other object into that "Symbol"-type layer in the Layers panel and it will become a part of the symbol.
Heck, you can even nest symbols into symbols if you dare. Expect some funky behavior though…

[G13RL]

36 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

They are usable via the Designer Persona in Publisher, too.

Thanks for the clarification, I misspoke, this is the procedure I used when I did the test.

[GarryP]

I think it’s worth mentioning that we have Pattern Layers in Photo now, so if someone has both Publisher and Photo they can use a Pattern Layer to create a tiled image quickly. See attached video
Note: Remember to make both X and Y integer pixel values and Rasterize the image to a Pixel Layer before making the Pattern Layer (otherwise there will probably be a gap between the tiles).