Images disappear randomly when dragged near the bottom of the page

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Images disappear randomly when dragged near the bottom of the page

I'm editing an A5 book using Pages and it has several images.

All of the images have textwrap set to None.

When I drag or resize an image near the bottom of a page the image will dissapear 70% of the time. the object is still there and can still be manipulated but you can't see the picture. It reappears randomly if you move it around and resize it and so far I've got around the problem by doing this but sometimes it doesn't reappear no matter what you do and it's very frustrating, all in all.

I'm using pages version 7.1

It says updates are available but that I need to upgrade my OS to do so and there is software I use that crashes with high sierra/mojave.

Posted on Jun 30, 2019 9:30 AM

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VikingOSX

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Jun 30, 2019 2:04 PM in response to Edalia_Day

So you are saying this is not just a simple image clipping because you crossed the document margin boundary? If not, all it would take is overlooking just one image with Text Wrap automatic — to jack with the other images behavior.

That software that crashes on High Sierra/Mojave. Have you checked with the vendor to see if newer updates are available, and compatible with more recent macOS releases?

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Edalia_Day Author

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Jul 3, 2019 12:45 PM in response to VikingOSX

I think that what's happening is perhaps in fact the "image clipping because it's crossed the margin boundary", or at least that behaviour, but for some reason it's deciding that the margin boundary is in random positions up and down the lower end of the page. I don't know if that makes any sense.

I've discovered now that the square of white dots signifying where the object is is staying on the page, but the picture is moving down to the next page. None of the other images are set to automatic text wrap

I have checked with the vendor of the crashing software and they say it works better now, but i feel very loathe to risk it as downgrading your os again if it doesn't work is a massive pain.

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Edalia_Day Author

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Jul 3, 2019 1:03 PM in response to Edalia_Day

I've recorded a video of it:

https://youtu.be/Li_9AqBYYhA

sometimes i've tried typing a different Y coordinate in the formatting tab and it will leap to -4.5 instead of the number i typed in

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Images disappear randomly when dragged near the bottom of the page

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