1 container item not working

[rachelhinds]

I was wondering if someone could help me. I have put together a flipchart utilizing containers and all work fine with the exception of one. I have checked everything I can think of, but just can't seem to get it to work. I have done this item the same as the others, checked to be sure the items are on the same layer, but still the item snaps back when it is placed in the correct container. I've been working with this for days and I am about to pull out my hair. It is on page 6. The item is the book My America with a boy on the cover and it is to be placed in the historical fiction container. I have attached the flipchart. Thanks for any assistance you can lend.

[srchlc]

If I put the book toward the top of the container (near the blue sky) it stays and works. Toward the middle of the group, it won't. That doesn't sound terribly helpful, but it will work at the top. No idea why! :D

Holli

[Nigel Pearce]

Very, very interesting !! (well at least I think so ;))

The picture of the horsedrawn waggon is actually a composite image. What does this mean? Well it is actually lots of shape objects all grouped together. This normally happens when you add a Windows metafile (.wmf) into the flipchart.

So if you click on it you can ungroup it. Then you will find that you can pull the image apart bit by bit.
Each of these objects has the same container action, ie to contain the 'My America' book.

So the question is why doesn't the book get contained?

Well, if you ungroup the waggon, you will see that none of the individual shapes are big enough to contain the book, with the exception of the blue sky shape behind the waggon, which explains why holi got it to work.

I would suggest you take a 'snapshot to current page' of the waggon using the camera tool, get rid of the composite and set the container property on the new image to accept the book. Then it will work fine.

Your 'horror' and 'science fiction' images are also composites, but notice that they each have one shape that is roughly the size of the overall image, so the container action works with these.

Hope this makes sense.

You learn something every day! :D

[LisaD]

That is interesting! Thanks for letting us in on that one!

Lisa

[rachelhinds]

Nigel, I did as you suggested and it worked beautifully! Thanks so much for the tip. It was making me crazy. You are a peach!.