Am Freitag, 16. Juli 2004 20:57 schrieben Sie: > Hi Sebastian > > > I worked a lot with Scribus the last days and nights and had some > > problems with the "cropping" function for images. With cropping I mean > > the possibility to manuelly scale an image in a smaller image frame or a > > frame with different ascpect ratio than the image source (e.g. if you > > have an image with tree person and just want to make the man in the > > middle fit the image frame). > > > > In theory you can do this in the propreties palette with the "image" > > section - here you can scale in horicontal and vertical direction (or > > both simultanisly) and change the part visible in the frame by changing > > the x and y position of the image. But this doesn`t do a good job for me. > > > > First, I recognized that manuell scaling (keeping aspect ratio) sometime > > leeds to bad picture quality on the screen. When this bad quality appears > > and I move the picture inside the border, then I create an pdf of the > > page I saw that the picture in the frame had not possition that is shown > > in the scribus doc (e.g. a centered man has the left hand croped in pdf, > > not in Scribus itself.) Finally I found out that reloading the same > > picture brings it back in good quality and the cropping in Scribus and > > pdf are in sync now (you can see it moving in the Scribus doc in > > comparison to the old possition). > > Ive only ever seen this kind of issue when using Scale to Frame and > thats because the idea of that is that 0,0 of the image is always at 0,0 > of the frame. > > To get the best results, you should really be cutting the image to size > in your favourite image program and setting the correct DPI there, but > of course thats not always the easiest solution. > > > Second, I realized that I can not set the x or y possition of my images > > to value smaller than -300mm (and bigger than 300mm?). This means in some > > cases I was not able to make the part of the photo visable, that I want > > to have there. I works (were poor) with changing the x and y possition > > and the width of the frame itself - but that`s hard work. > > Its a hard coded limit, we can change that. Just need to set a > reasonable maximum. > > Do you know you can double click on the image frame to drag the image > within the frame?
No I didn`t !!! Makes things MUCH easier - thanks! > > My wish for the feature: I imagine some kind of preview window when I > > choose the image tab of the propreties tool. This means I`d like to see > > the full image there with a border that has the size of my image frame. > > Now I want to have the possibility to move the border over the image and > > what`s in is visible in the image frame, what`s out is out. (Like the > > cropping feature for digikam print visard if anybody knows). > > > > What are you ideas about it? > > Yes.. possible. Good idea.. > > > I promissed Crag not to write bugreports to the list anymore. This is a > > discussion for all list members to find a proper solution for my problem. > > When we finish discussing I will write something in the tracker. > > > :) its ok.. discussion is encouraged.. but tracking bugs in the list is > > a bit hard. > > Craig
