On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 21:38, Sebastian R?der wrote: > 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!
You can also click on the text edit toolbar button.. ie.. the one that puts you into editing mode for a text frame. We need a new button icon that combines both Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20040716/05b46395/attachment.pgp
