Breaking up a screen capture

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February 17, 2023
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I have a screen capture that is about 8 1/2 wide x 60 inches long. It is saved as a JPEG. I am wondering of there is a way I can manually "flow" a JPEG from one page to another, the way one would flow text. Ideally, the goal is to wind up with 6 pages that are each 11 inches long.

Thnks much.

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Correct answer Eugene Tyson

Yeh that's going to be a bit tougher because the image is massive.

And when you split the image you only split in 2 not 6.

If you want 2 that's fine.

So with 2 - you'd then fit the image to the frame to the width.

You need to CUT the image - and then select the Text Tool - place your cursor in a Text Frame as if you're going to Type then use Paste.

This puts the image in a text frame which makes it an anchored object and flows with the text.

You'll then need to make sure both images are the same scale. And then manually adjust the the position of the graphics within the frame to align them to the top and bottom.

But to get the image to flow between text frames - the text frames need to be Threaded - and the images have to be anchored so they move like text does.

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Placed pictures don't flow. Only text flows. You did not fit the graphic to the frame in the beginning of your mp4 example. Your whole approach to this is strange why you want to do this at all. Can you illuminate?

Mike Witherell

Community Expert

Place the picture first into one frame, then run the script.

Mike Witherell

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ericgraigAuthor

Participant

I believe that is what I did. I'm still not seeing the little handle on the lower right that indicates something is flowable. The idea is to flow the image file so that I wind up with 25 or so pages that look like the attached JPEG but will all the content in the image.

2023-02-22_18-58-20.zip

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Eugene Tyson

Correct answer

Community Expert

Yeh that's going to be a bit tougher because the image is massive.

And when you split the image you only split in 2 not 6.

If you want 2 that's fine.

So with 2 - you'd then fit the image to the frame to the width.

You need to CUT the image - and then select the Text Tool - place your cursor in a Text Frame as if you're going to Type then use Paste.

This puts the image in a text frame which makes it an anchored object and flows with the text.

You'll then need to make sure both images are the same scale. And then manually adjust the the position of the graphics within the frame to align them to the top and bottom.

But to get the image to flow between text frames - the text frames need to be Threaded - and the images have to be anchored so they move like text does.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

Place your image at the size you want

In the scripts panel there's a make grid script