Change Picture to fit the frame option

[Vaughan]

Hi,

I use a very old version of ms publisher at the moment which gives the
option "resize the picture to fit the frame" when inserting an image in to a
picture box. This is very useful if you need all pictures on all pages the
same size.

I am trialing this new version (2007) and I cannot seem to find a way of
setting up a document with set picture box sizes that will not resize when I
insert an image. It is a pain to have to go through every page of a document
and have to drag the picture boxes out to the right size.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks

Vaughan

 

[Mary Sauer]

A couple of suggestions. Create a one cell table, right-click the table, format
table, size tab. With your cursor in the cell, fill, fill effects, picture tab.
Create a rectangle, right-click, format object, size tab. Select the rectangle,
fill, fill effects, picture tab.

 

[Vaughan]

Mary,

Many thanks that has helped me out a lot. Not as quick for inserting images
as before, why they removed that option I will probably never know, but it
does mean I can finally upgrade from Publisher 97!!!!

 

[Mary Sauer]

Keep 97, install it in its own folder. There are templates in 97 that never
showed up in subsequent versions.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Many thanks that has helped me out a lot. Not as quick for inserting images
as before, why they removed that option I will probably never know, but it
does mean I can finally upgrade from Publisher 97!!!!

They did so because people were creating butt-ugly documents. Virtually
all pictures are designed to be displayed at a particular ratio of width
to height (for example, a square image is designed to be displayed at a
ratio of 1:1). Stretching images distorts them. You can sometimes get
away with a little distortion, but too much and your image just looks
ugly. To accomplish the task without making things look ugly takes a
tasteful combination of resizing, cropping, moving, and rearranging
other content - something that Publisher is nowhere near intelligent
enough to handle.