Howto fit content without resizing?

Is it possible to make a bitmap constantly align to the upper-left of its frame - but not having the bitmap resize?

No prob, Kasper. The bit about an "override" is this: InDesign allows for creation of "styles" that make formatting of text and objects faster & easier to control than doing everything manually. So if you go to Window -> Styles -> Object Styles, you'll see a Basic Graphics Frame and a Basic Text Frame. You can create as many object styles as you want, with as many or as few features (fill? stroke? drop shadow? transparency?) as you like, and then apply them all at once with one click. Frame Fitting Options just happens to be one of the many object parameters you can control with an Object Style.
Of course, if you want to diverge from your style a bit, you can manually tweak whatever you want. If you've applied manual formatting to an object that you set up with an Object STyle, then a little plus symbol appears next to the style name when you've selected it, indicating that you've overridden the style definition with some manual formatting.
So, feel free to continue using Frame FItting Options manually. But if you are dealing with a large number of objects, and your mouse-clicking muscle is tired from the number of clicks you need to go through per object to set it up the way you want (direct select tool -> right click on object -> navigate to Frame Fitting Options -> make selections in dropdown and reference proxy -> hit OK), just be aware of this other way of styling objects (select object -> select object style) exists.
Also, when your client says "I love it! But can you make all 1,200 images hug the lower left instead of the upper left?" you can do it in five clicks, instead of 6000 clicks.

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I have been having a lot of issue with Fit Content Proportionally since upgrading to CS6.
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High Res Image:
http://i.imgur.com/kl9jS.jpg

This is a bug or a big enough change in behavior that it should come with a warning alert the first time you use it. I've replicated it across different 8.0.1 installs and (Mac) OSs.
To replicate:
Place graphic. I haven't seen a difference among placed graphic types.
Resize the graphic frame non-proportionally.
Object=>Fitting=>Fit Content to Frame, so that the content is scaled non-proportionally. (Or select the content and scale it non-proportionally.)
Object=>Fitting=>Fit Content Proportionally. Nothing happens. (Or, if you scaled the content without fitting it in the previous step, the content may be centered, and it may be scaled, but the proportions won't be changed.)
I suppose you could make an argument that this is more correct than the old behavior—the command now means "Fit without changing the proportions"—but it's a big change, and I doubt anybody wants it to work this way.
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function fit(item) {
var i, l, graphic;
if (item instanceof Group) {
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      fit(item.pageItems[i].getElements()[0]);
else if (item.hasOwnProperty("imageTypeName")) {
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else if (item.hasOwnProperty("graphics")) {
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      graphic.horizontalScale = graphic.horizontalScale < 0 ? -100 : 100;
      graphic.verticalScale = graphic.verticalScale < 0 ? -100 : 100;
      graphic.fit(FitOptions.PROPORTIONALLY);
function main() {
var i, l;
if (!app.documents.length) {
    return;
for (i = 0, l = app.selection.length; i < l; i++) {
    fit(app.selection[i]);
app.doScript(main, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Really Fit Content Proportionally");
There are certainly some corner cases I've left out. Let me know if you try to use it and it doesn't work right.
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Thanks for your help.
Edited by: user757151 on Nov 15, 2012 11:12 AM

Thanks Alejandro. I also found that to make the textareas available to the script when the page loads, i had to set the table's contentDelivery property to "immediate".
In case anyone else needs this, here is how i adapted the javascript Alejandro had shared:
<af:resource type="javascript">
    function resizeHeight(e) {
    var textAreas = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
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while (textArea.rows > 1 && textArea.scrollHeight < textArea.offsetHeight)
textArea.rows--;
while (textArea.scrollHeight > textArea.offsetHeight)
textArea.rows++;
textArea.rows++;
</af:resource>

CS4 fit content to frame default

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Hi Guys,
Thanks for the responses and I apologise for the delay in replying, it has been flat out here... Anyway I just want to confirm that the problem still exists. I am unsure how to explain it further although I will try
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Can't see the fit content to frame option....

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I'm having some issues trying to click on:
Object > Fitting > Fit Content to Frame
This area is simply greyed out and I cant' select the option to do so.
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Thanks
Daniel

I just wondered if you can please advise how I could click a button and have the text within the text box automatically resize to fit the frame?
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I went through following steps and getting result that I do not want:
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2. From the explorer window of my folder, select 100 png files and drag into the graphics area of the open photoshop image.
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Yip, those would be the icons I was looking for, but maybe they weren't visible depending on what i had selected, since I swear I looked for them..but there they are in my screenshot
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