Comments on: Paste Into a Rotated InDesign Object

By: Dave Saunders

Dave Saunders — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:53:52 +0000

You have to use Cut/Paste to get an item out of the object you pasted it into:

1. Click on the object with the pointer tool.

2. Click on Select Content (or choose it from the Object menu).

3. Cut.

4. Paste.

Dave

By: Tapoori

Tapoori — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:21:48 +0000

I’m wondering the same thing, how in the world can we remove/undo “paste into” - please help!

By: jamie

jamie — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 07:38:39 +0000

How to un-”paste into” objects?

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:24:58 +0000

Oh! I see now. You want the pasted image to take on the angle of the NEW frame. Drat. No, I don’t see any way to do that. InDesign CS3 always seems to remember the original “formatting” of the image.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 16:13:31 +0000

Thanks for the quick response. This is the scenario. I have a new page. Draw a frame onto the page. Rotate it 5 degrees. I then place an image onto the page. That image is default set to 0 degrees. If I cut the image from the placed object and paste into the Rotated object, it retains the 0 degrees, unlike in CS2 when it would take on the 5 degrees.

Obviously this is for images already on a page or I would just place into the frame. The example is just for clarification.

By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:53:49 +0000

Kris, I’m not sure what the problem could be. When I copy an image out of a rotated frame, then select another frame and use Edit > Paste Into, it maintains the rotation of the original image.

By: Kris

Kris — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 15:38:49 +0000

It seems that CS3 does this automatically, the problem I am having is how do you paste an image into a rotated object that retains the rotation of the object in CS3, am I missing something?

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:44:07 +0000

If you know what you plan to do ahead of time, you can place the graphic in the frame first, then turn off “Transform Content” in the flyout. When you apply the transformation, the content of the frame won’t transform. Unfortunately, this option is not available before the frame is filled with something and when you remove the image and place/paste another it jumps back to the transformation applied the frame. Or at least this is how it worked in my test case.

By: Mark Ashley

Mark Ashley — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 09:28:06 +0000

These all work, but the Tim/David trick is better if you are making a frame that you plan to duplicate. If you release the internal transformation before making copies, you save having to do step 4 every time.

What is the “Something Absolute” equivalent in the English version?

By: eric @ mca

eric @ mca — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:06:28 +0000

Very nice find by Branislav! Works for me too, but the reset (3) seems unnecessary in the test case he submitted?

1. Rotate/distort masking box.
2. Paste picture inside.
3. Select pasted-in picture frame (”blue” select, not “orange” direct silect). This can be done by option-clicking with direct silect or using the “select content” control palette item.
4. Zero the settings and picture should appear masked in the frame with its relative positioning to the masking frame before the paste into.