Pages will automatically resize any object with a hight or width over 6.5 inches. This only happens when I'm working on a file with a portrait orientation. It doesn't seem to happen on a file in landscape. I recorded a quick screen cap of the problem: http://youtu.be/IbQqsXXYFvE
Does anyone know how to turn this feature off?
pages 5.5.3
2010 mackbook pro
2009 imac
both running OSX 10.10.5
Congratulations on finding yet another bug or poorly designed feature in Pages 5.5.3.
It doesn't happen in Pages '09.
Peter
The default left and right margins in a Pages blank template are 1 inch. That leaves you with 6.5 inches of document body. In order to honor the default document margin boundaries, Pages v5 will visually your image to fit. Your original pixels are still there, and you are being shown a convenient illusion.
You can visit the Pages Preferences: Rulers : Ruler Units if you want to temporarily work in image points.
From the Format panel, select the Arrange tab, and for Text Wrap, you may wish to set this to None. Further down, you will encounter the Size section, where you can click on Original Size and your image will obey — flowing off the right and bottom margins if it is sufficiently large. You can use the Width and Height adjustments to tweak the image size to what you want.
Thanks VikingOX,
The 1" margins explain the horizontal restrictions but not the vertical ones.
I'm not seeing where to select "original size" could you post a screenshot?
Make certain that your image is selected, and then look on the right panel for the Arrange tab.
Don't rule out Placeholder Images in your own custom template. Drop an image on a Placeholder image and it will automatically resize to fit the original Placeholder image size.
Hmm, I don't seem to have that button but removing the margins takes care of the problem. Thanks for your help
It is in Pages v5.5.3 on Yosemite.
yup, that's what I'm using...
objects resize with copy and paste
