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copy and past image into another box same size and location

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June 14, 2011
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Indesign CS5 Mac

Have a lage document with portraits - 1 of the portraits needs to come out and need to shift them over. In Quark you could copy and past image into another image box and get same scale and X&Y location. I have tried the direct selection tool copied the image and paste into the empty box next to it but the scale is off.

Is there a work around this in Indesign.

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emmett_h

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I know what you are asking. I am a long time user of Quark and this cut and paste of content of a picture box is very useful but doesn't quite work the same in InDesign.

In Quark you simply have to cut and paste the content from one box into another - the paste replaces the original content immediately.

I have discovered that in InDesign you can cut as usual the content from your first picture box, but after selecting the target picture box you need to firstly delete the file that is there and then use 'Paste into…' which is ALT & CMD & V.

rob day

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In CS1 you could do it but in newer versions you need a script. If you try to copy an image from frame 1 to frame 2, and frame 2 is inside the copied image's bounds, pasting into positions the image to the original bounds:

The script puts the image at the same bounds relative to the target box, which might be preferable:

If the target frame is outside of the original's bounds then the image gets centered, which might force you to reposition the image:

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greenrookie

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Hi Rob,

Do you still have your earlier version of the script available for CS4?

The above works great in CS5 but for IDCS4 it comes up with the dialog "Copy a frame with an image and try again"

Much Appreciated,

GreenRookie

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Indy The Adventure Dog

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Edit>Paste Into

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I'm confused. Why not just move the image in the existing frame? You don't have to move the frame to move the content inside it.

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rickaz1Autor

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My question is: In Quark you could copy and past image into another image box and get same scale and X&Y location. I have tried the direct selection tool copied the image and paste into the empty box next to it but the scale is off. IS there a way for InDesign to copy an image and past it into a new box and have the same x & y and scale size?

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I'm not able to get the scale to change when I paste into, but I haven't tried really hard. You'd have to do something atypical for scale to change, or do something after you paste. When you paste into another frame, the content should be centered.

But I will ask again. WHY do you need to paste into a new frame? It sounds to me as if you need to either crop the image or shift it in the existing frame.

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

Not a workaround, but a tool: use Edit -> Paste in Place

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rickaz1Autor

Participating Frequently

Past in Place pastes in on top of the original image and not in the box that I want to paste it into

Joel Cherney

Community Expert

Oh, I misunderstood entirely. Nevermind! I try to avoid scaling raster images in ID, so I have no idea whatsoever how you'd do this, or if it's even possible.

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