Am Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2007 02:47 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> > <html> > <head> > <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> > </head> > <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> > Thanks! I'd looked at the properties, but missed the "Image" button. > All's well now.<br> > <br> > Christoph Schäfer wrote: > <blockquote cite="mid:200707041845.11668.christoph-schaefer at gmx.de" > type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">Am Mittwoch, 4. Juli 2007 16:55 schrieb Barbara Duprey: > </pre> > <blockquote type="cite"> > <pre wrap="">Hi! I'm a newbie, just getting used to playing with > Scribus. I've looked a little at the archives, but I'm not sure how to > narrow things down enough to be useful there, so please forgive me if > you've answered this question a hundred times already. > > I have a bitmap image of a map, on which I want to superimpose street > names, etc. In my initial attempt, I inserted an image frame and got the > bitmap, but I couldn't find any way to resize the bitmap itself, just > the frame. So as a quick and dirty solution, I used my word processor > (OpenOffice Writer) to pick up the image and resize it appropriately, > exported a PDF, and inserted that into the Scribus image. All went fine, > added text on paths and so on. When I export as a PDF, it complains > about the image but when I tell it to ignore errors, everything prints > out fine. > > So far, so good. But now I really want to get at that base bitmap again, > change it, and recreate my Scribus document. I clearly need to have the > Scribus reference the bitmap, not the embedded PDF. What I'd LIKE to do > is create an image frame, insert the bitmap resized to fit the frame, > and then resize and reposition the frame AND the bitmap until the map is > back where it was. Am I out of luck here? > </pre> > </blockquote> > <pre wrap=""><!----> > Hi Barbara, > > Welcome to Scribus! > > To achieve your goal, you have to open the Properties Palette (F2) and > select the option "Scale to Frame Size" in the "Image" tab. > > For more info about the use of image frames see: > <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" > href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_image_frames";>http://w >iki.scribus.net/index.php/Working_with_image_frames</a> > > HTH > > Christoph > > > </pre> > </blockquote> > </body> > </html>
Hi Barbara, please don't send HTML emails to mailing lists. You can see above how such an email looks like. It's a bit hard to parse the content ;) Cheers Christoph
