@Steve – is the bug also present, if you open the CS5.5 document (where all is well) in InDesign CS6?
And: does it make a difference using InDesign CS6 v8.0.1 over v8.0.0?

Uwe

Hello everyone, I recently upgraded from CS5 to CS6 recently. I am experiencing the same scenarios being described here in this forum: placing images and the “Frame Fitting Options” control is not being honored. Is Adobe listening/reading our comments. Is there a solution on the near horizon. Or, is Adobe beginning to show its weakness like QuarkXPress has done in its’ past. I am voting for Adobe. The solution to this scenario should be a quick “dirty & down” project... it worked before--it should NOW! Adobe, resolve this solution now. We are counting on you!

Wow, now here I am a few months later again and the bugs are still there.  This is the type of bug that renders the application unusable.  I have had to resort to using Photoshop to produce prints with the scaling dpi that I want. 

There are several modes of this bug.  The way I see it, once you change a frame to "fit contents" (which it will always do) you can never again set that frame to Center, or set the image to "unscaled" again. I have seen that this can work if you go ahead and delete the original contents of the frame and re-insert the image after clearing the formating options.   The images in my frames need to either be fitted to the frame, or "cropped as a to-scale".  I would think that when I select different options from the Object-Fitting menu, that I would see different results, but that is not always the case.  If you pulll up the options and select different alignment on an image (from left, from bottom, etc.) that doesn't always work either.

I would think a rigorous investigation into this part of the application is long overdue.

M-Z

It's true.  It is a very severe bug.  It's right up there with Windows 7 deleting a file in explorer and the operating system not removing it from the list until you hit refresh.  In both cases, maybe the developers have tried to fix them, but can't.  They're much too obvious to have gone unnoticed.

fgallery2 wrote:

 

  If you pulll up the options and select different alignment on an image (from left, from bottom, etc.) that doesn't always work either.

 

I found that if you set the four crop amounts to 0, then is seems to work.

P.

Hello,

Did you try the script? You can download it from here.

P.

I've tried the script but it doesn't seem to do anything....

Personally, I was  happy with InDesign CS4 as it rarely let me down- especially with Frame-fitting issues. We had no choice to upgrade to CS6 or we'd have to buy it outright, which for a small company, is a massive outlay. Dissapointing to see this thread has had no reply on such a seemingly basic oversight. 

Hmmm, that is a shame, it works for me on Win and Mac.

I have no idea why it is working, as you can see from the code it is simply setting the value of fittingAlignment to its self.

In my testing I did create a new document, new frame, set the proxie and then place.

My ID is not patched or updated.

P.

Couldn't get two images.

PDF, I used a gif.

When you import a PDF theImage.constructor.name == "PDF". So we need to expand our script.

I will do some more testing.

P.

OK, lets put an alert in the script. Are you able to edit the script? If so paste this in.

function ourAfterPlace(e){

          var theImage = e.parent;

          alert ( theImage.constructor.name );

          if (( theImage.constructor.name == "Image" ) ||

                    ( theImage.constructor.name == "PDF" ))

          {

                    theImage.parent.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment = theImage.parent.frameFittingOptions.fittingAlignment;

          }

}

Should we go to PM, rather than clog this thread up?

P.

Whilst I think the script option is massively helpful and shows a proactiveness and ingenuity to get around the problem, the fact is, this is an old feature that should be working without work-arounds from good people like Pickory.

I agree MCCoole, we shouldn't be trying to work this out ourselves, but this is a problem that seriously hampers productivity, and needs sorting out. As Adobe don't appear to be doing it I am grateful for all the help I can get!