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• • August 20, 2015 at 8:01 pm #77484
    AaronA

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    It’s nifty to be able to place a bunch of images at once, using cmd-shift to put them in a neat grid on the pasteboard.

    What’s not nifty (to me) is that each of them has an encompassing frame, and I always have to double-click through to get to the original image, cut it, paste it, and then later delete the blank frames.

    Is there any way to place them in one go, at small scale, without the frames? Just in their original proportions?

  • August 21, 2015 at 4:50 am #77487
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Not sure what you mean by “without the frames.” You cannot have an image without a frame in InDesign. All images are inside frames. Are you getting frames that have black strokes around them when you create the grid, and you want to remove the strokes?

  • August 21, 2015 at 10:09 am #77490
    AaronA

    Participant

    Hi David,

    Wow, I never realized that! Thanks for enlightening me.

    No, I’m not getting strokes around the frames. What I’d like, then, is to have the multiple images in a grid at a similar size, but with each frame fitting exactly to its image’s proportions. At least the option to do so. [This is for situations when I’m just putting a batch on the pasteboard to draw from in a design; I’m not wanting to actually have them all grid-aligned in same-sized frames.]

  • August 21, 2015 at 1:35 pm #77492
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Ah! I think I understand. After you place the images, press Command-Option-C or choose Object > Fitting > Fit Frame to Content. Does that work?

  • August 21, 2015 at 3:13 pm #77493
    AaronA

    Participant

    That does work, thanks. I was hoping for a way to have them fit from the get-go, but this’ll do.

    Now what’s weird is that each one has a link icon at top left; this seems to be file dependent as it’s not happening with another file when I place the same images. Is this a file-specific preference that I’ve missed?

  • August 21, 2015 at 7:56 pm #77494
    Brian Lind

    Member

    AaronA,

    I just figured out this solution the other day as I was having the same issue! Basically I think you want to be able to batch resize your photos and the frames at the same time. Normally if you were to do this the outer cropping frame would adjust but not the image file. To fix this follow the following steps:
    1.) Place your photos into your workspace, you’ll have a bunch of photos attached to your mouse pointer, click to lay them all out.
    2.) Select all photos you just placed
    3.) Now select autofit in the frame options (for me in my standard toolbar layout this comes up in the upper right when all images are selected)
    4.) now use the WxH entry to size your images.

    Boom! Bob’s your uncle.

    That should do it for you, auto fit keeps the cropping frame relative to image frame as you size. Alternatively you could crop a photo and then resize it with the autofit and it will resize both frames in relation to how the image was set up before you selected autofit.

    If you are like me you’ll wish you realized this before spending hours laying photos out and resizing both frames for a thumbnail layout of the like! Let me know if these instructions are confusing at all!

    Also thanks for the shit command grid layout, I think that just became really handy to me for the project I’m currently working on!!

    Brian

  • August 23, 2015 at 5:50 pm #77501
    AaronA

    Participant

    Hi Brian,

    Thanks for the tips. My process for this is to use the cmd-shift shortcut while dragging a corner anchor point of the selected group. This scales them all proportionally without needing to type.

    Aaron

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