Manual frame does not match the placed image

[Marcel Gross]

If I place an image with cmd+D and then draw the frame manually with the mouse, the frame always has the same aspect ratio (3 to 4 landscape) and if I want to place an image in portrait format, the frame does not match the content. So far, this has always been the case without any extra setting or key combination. But now since a few days I can't achieve this again with any setting.

ChatGPT advises me to select ‘Fit frame to content’ in the frame fitting options or in the presettings, but this is no longer available for selection. Has this been deliberately changed or is this a silly new bug?

Has anyone experiences the same issue and is there a solution?

Can I report this tho Adobe?

[Willi Adelberger]

Why do you draw a frame extra from the image.

Either draw an image frame and place the image into that existing frame or place an image, the frame is automatically existent with the import of the image-

[Marcel Gross]

If you open "Place..." trough cmd+D you are able to place multiple images manually in different sizes. (the selected pictures are then like in a waiting-line in your cursor) Its a very usefull way of placing multiple images manually. With landscape pictures in the ratio 3to4 it works fine, but every picture with another ratio the frame doesn't fit the content automatically. That is annoying because it needs multiple steps after to correct this. Earlier this was working fine, but doesn't anymore...

[Marcel Gross]

Here a screen recording.

[Willi Adelberger]

Click on the right bottom of the frame twice to adjust the size of the frame.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Marcel Gross 

Which version of InDesign?

I've just checked on a PC and 2025 - no problem at all?

Maybe try resetting preferences?

[Marcel Gross]

I have InDesign 20.0.1. installed on MacOS Sequoia.
Yeah, I'll try resetting everything

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

@Marcel Gross

After placing multiple files, you can select them all, then Ctrl+Alt+C - Fit Frame To Content.

[Marcel Gross]

Thank you for both advices. But they don't solve my problem. Its both additional steps, but it was so much more usefull to not need to adjust frames afterwards. I don't get why it doesn't work the way it did before. It seems like a bug to me. To adjust it in steps after placing there's multiple ways, I know...

[leo.r]

I'm not sure it's relevant, but do you have this checked in Preferences > General by any chance:

[Marcel Gross]

Yes, thank you, I tried that before. This makes the picture fill the whole frame but if the ratio is different it gets cropped (with overflow outside the frame)... So I didn't find a solution yet.

[Mike Witherell]

I tested my InDesign for similar behavior, but could not reproduce the error you show. Therefore, a suggestion of a thorough reset is all I can suggest. Bear in mind that a reset for InDesign seems to exist in 4 stages of thoroughness. Maybe try 1 of the 4 or all 4 in order to thoroughly reset it. Explore here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/reset-indesign-preferences-and-other-troubleshoo...