Multiple images in 1 picture box?

[rosieh]

Hi,

Hope someone can help. I've taken over from someone at my company who has now left who seems to have done something impossible! Within indesign we have certain picture boxes which contain illustrator eps symbols that have up to 16 of these images all layered on top of each other. There is then some software that sorts through the symbols and selects the correct one. I have some help on the software plugin, but I can not work out how the layering of so many images can be completed. Every way I try it just replaces the previous images with the new image.

Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks
Rosie

 

[jmgalvin]

Unless the layers were imported or created via INDD layers, I'm guessing that someone simply dragged one picture on top of the next and next and next.

Have you checked the layers window to see what's there?

Not sure I understood the question, but to just put another pic on top, make a picture box somewhere else, place the image and drag it on top of the others. Then align as necessary.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[rosieh]

Thanks for this, and this would answer the initial question but it doesn't seem to work. The layers aren't being used at all, so it isn't this and when I drag another image on top of the first image and so on, nothing happens. The first image remains and no other images are layered on top. What am I doing wrong?

 

[apepp]

...i think i have read your question about four times now and am still a bit confused as to what the requirement really is...

...these 16 images from one eps file or 16 seperate eps's? If one eps then the x and y coordinates will need adjusting, using the direct select tool (white arrow) in combination with the transform palette...

...if placing images on top of one another you have the option to send objects to the front or back of another object using object > arrange...

Andrew

 

[jmgalvin]

Also make sure that none of the earlier images are locked - object menu.

If you want, select the new pic, before you move it and Object menu/arrange/ move to front. Then move it over other pics.

Also check layers window and make sure that no layer is locked.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4