Brainiac

Question

How to remove an image from an anchored frame for additional editing?

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
April 5, 2023
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Hi. Using ID 18.2.1 on Windows 11 (all updated).

I got myself into this... I'm hoping someone can get me out.

I created an anchored frame and pasted a relatively complex graphic into it (using Paste Into). Everything is satisfactory, except that now I must edit the graphic, which exists only in the anchored frame. (Mea Culpa.)

So the question is How do I copy/remove the graphic from the anchored frame for further editing? I can't seem to find a way to do this.

I will not make the same mistake again.

Thanks, as always, to the Community.

-j

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default3021157727i7p7

New Participant

I can see this is old but the solution is, select the box with the selector tool, go to Object, Select, Content and delete.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Brainiac

I can see this is old but the solution is, select the box with the selector tool, go to Object, Select, Content and delete.

By @default3021157727i7p7

And how this will make it editable?

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default3021157727i7p7

New Participant

If you Object, Select, you can delete or Copy and Paste out, edit and put back. Depends what you want to do with it, but you don't have to individually select the content.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Brainiac

What do you mean by "complex graphics"?

Was it a layered bitmap?

Maybe try to export page as a PDF or EPS and then try to open it in Photoshop - maybe it will "survive"...

James Gifford—NitroPress

Brainiac

You can't do much of anything with pasted graphics.

You can un-anchor the frame by right-clicking on the anchor icon, and under Anchored Object, click Release.

Right-click on the image's center ring (that appears when you hover on it), and see if any Edit options are allowed. That, or you can Copy it and paste it into a new Photoshop document for editing. Not sure what/if any of that will work well enough.

Don't use cut and paste to put things in InDesign. It's a very poor practice. Use the Place command, or drag and drop — although some say those are identical, I've had and seen reports of issues with the latter. The thoroughly secure method is to use Place.

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NedlawAuthor

Brainiac

Thanks for the reply. Sad news.

The center ring doesn't seem to give me many good options.

If I remember correctly, Adobe's instruction for putting a graphic into an anchored frame is PASTE INTO, but I'll try PLACE -- place works for all the other graphics. Even so, I'm not sure (yet) if a graphic PLACED into an anchored frame would be any more removable than a graphic PASTEd INTO an anchored frame.

In any case, lesson learned. <sigh>

Thanks again.

-j

Peter Spier

Community Expert

I appreciate the help.

Just to clarify, however.... If I assemble a graphic from parts on the pasteboard and group them, how would I then use PLACE to put them within an anchored frame without using PASTE INTO?

-j

It's perfectly OK to PLACE multiple images (or a single image) somewhere on the page or pastebaord, then group them, cut, and Paste Into another frame (that's an easy way to mask, too). That retains the links.

Waht you don't want to do is copy/paste images from another application.

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