Style Option "Crop Image to Fill" not working

[l.dal...@bfb.de]

Hello to everyone,

given the possibility of dinamically scaling banners with Google Web Designer (otherwise what would be the point in using it?), I would like to use a general background image and let it be cropped automatically depending on banner size and orientation... I thought the Style option "Crop Image to Fill" would be exactly what I was looking for, but apparently it is not working... nothing happens to my background picturewhen switching between style options.
It doesn't work neither if I import the asset directly from the menu nor if I use the Element (Image) Tool.

Am I missing something? Any idea?

Running Google Web Designer 1.9.0.0619 on Windows 10

Thanks
Luca

[Kent Myers]

If you are talking about the GWD interface, that's just a display bug and it should be corrected in the most recent release. However even in older versions, when you preview your file in a browser that scaling works correctly... so it was only an issue in the GWD UI.

Hope that helps,

Kent

Google Web Designer team

[lucada...@gmail.com]

Hi Kent,

thank you for answering!
Yes I am talking about the GWD interface, but not only! I downloaded GWD yesterday (or the day before) so I should have the latest version (1.9.0.0619). Whether I look at the "Design View" or I preview the banner on a browser (btw only Firefox and Chrome work, the Microsoft ones - surprise :) - do not work) the background image is unfortunately still not correctly cropped...

Greetings.

Luca

[Kent Myers]

So it's only MS which does not resize the image correctly? Can you provide the browser name & version please.

Regarding newest GWD release, it's more related to the shell and I think 1.5.1 has the fix (you can see your shell# in the GWD Help menu) 1.5.0 does not have the image UI fix.

[lucada...@gmail.com]

Hi Kent,

not really. Firefox and Chrome (respectively 53.0.2 and 60.0.3112.113) show everything as wished, but do not crop the image outside the banner surface although I choose "crop image to fill" and no matter wheter I add the pic with the element tool or add the asset from the menu (as already specified).

Explorer and Edge do not work AT ALL. Explorer(11.413.15063.0) shows a faulty banner with no animations or transitions and all elements are placed wrongly. Edge (40.15063.0.0) does not show anything, although the window opens when I click on preview.

Thanks

[Kent Myers]

Can you post a link to your ad so I can see the behavior in different browsers?

You can upload the entire folder "gwd_preview_my-file-name" to a web server.