Expand to fit going mad on image field

[Former Community Member]

Hi

I have an image field for showing images that might be different shapes.  Regardless of the shape of the image I always need it to be the width I set in the designer and then vertically expand as needed to keep the same proportion.

To do this I've set Sizing to "Scale Image Proportionally" and I've ticked Expand to Fit for Height, but not Width.  Unfortunately when I do this I'm getting incredibly tall (several pages big) image fields which are mostly empty.  I think what might be happening is that the image is very large height is being set before the image is shrunk to fit the width.

Does anyone know a way to make the image field only expand vertically as far as is necessary for the image to fit the width of the field?

Thanks

Dan

[Former Community Member]

Anybody?

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I think you'll have problems with this. I see the same behaviour here and I suspect that the image field cannot cope with expand to fit height.

I also tried scripting a minimum height (this.minH) but that showed the same behaviour as well. While minH works well for textfields, it just extends the height of the imageField beyond the page.

Good luck,

Niall

[Former Community Member]

Damn - That really wasn't the answer I wanted to hear.

Thanks

[amw18]

Bummer.  I'm having the same problem.  Argh.

[Niall_O_Donovan]

Hi,

I know this is not what the original thread was looking for, but it shows how you can scale images at runtime: http://assure.ly/i8ZI5Y

Niall

[amw18]

Thanks--not sure if I can rig that to work for what I need though; my image field is within a repeating subform and the xfa.layout call happens on the master page so I'd have to somehow get the subform index information to the call...  I haven't given up yet, but it sure would be nice if the resize just worked in the first place!!