File Place - aspect ratio of frame is wrong way round

[graemea49370669]

Hi all. Apologies if this has been raised before - I've searched and can't find anything, but might be down to wrong search terms.

Anyway, I'm using Adobe InDesign CC and have recently hit an issue with placing images in my document. I'm using File > Place but when I select the image to import the aspect ratio of the frame that the image is being placed in is all wrong. The depth of the frame equals the height of the image, but it is too wide:

I'm guessing I may have clicked some option somewhere that has resulted in this. Does anyone out there know how to fix it? Thanks!

[Barb Binder]

Check your Frame Fitting settings to see if you changed a default. In the same menu, Fit Frame to Content will fix this until you figure this out.

~Barb

[graemea49370669]

Hi Barb,

Thanks very much for the help. The fix works fine - picking Fit Frame to Content - but I can't figure out what I've done to the defaults to make the problem happen! I've picked all the options there and it still behaves the same. It also only seems to be in this one document - other document I'm working on behave OK. Grrrr.

Hey ho. I'm happy to keep fixing it as I go in the one document!

Thanks again,

Graeme

[Barb Binder]

Hi Graeme:

Can you deselect all and then show me your Frame Fitting Options dialog box?

~Barb

[graemea49370669 · Accepted solution]

Hi Barb,

It's all working fine now thanks. I must have not tried all the options properly when I replied previously. Here's dialog box with the option I now have selected:

Thanks again for all your help!

Graeme

[Barb Binder]

Hi Graeme:

What you showed us looked like Fit Content proportionally. You can also reset it back to the default—which is none—and then just use the Frame Fitting buttons as needed. That's the workflow I teach my students.

Anyway, glad you are back on track.

~Barb

[graemea49370669]

Hi again Barb,

I have further insight into what was happening. I've just been working in another document and it happened again! I then realised that I had rotated the image through 90 degrees in Windows Explorer before I placed it in InDesign. That seems to be what is causing it to misinterpret the height and width of the image when setting the frame size. If I don't do that first then it all works fine.

I'm going to set it back to the default of "none" now, and not do the Windows rotation thing in future.

Thanks again for all your help!

Graeme

[Barb Binder]

You are very welcome, Graeme.

~Barb

[serane]

Hello Barb, 

i'm still struggling with the issue. I've gone through all the  frame fitting options and i havent priorly rotated the images. No matter what i do indesign always has me make a lanscape frame (19:6) even though i'm importing a portrait frame (6:19). 

[Victoria Claire Taylor]

me too. I place the image on the page and even thought its a portrait image it appears landscape - exactly per your example. white space either side. It never usually does this - it's a new thing since the latest update. Hopefully it is a glitch that will soon get ironed out. 

[BobLevine]

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