I too am targeting real physical output, a book that people will buy. For my situation, having the ability to plop these musical notation references on the page *exactly as they were created* is a significant drawback. While you can certainly take a picture of grandma's birthday party and stretch it some, mess up the aspect ratio a little and it will still look fine, something like this music notation is immediately crap if it's not exactly as it was created..
I understand if one is putting a magazine or book together that has small pictures that have to be placed in a column or something like that, then yes, the image frame is a good tool for exact positioning and putting a very large huge pixel picture into a small box. Again, the adjust frame to image does not work as you would expect it to, it only adjusts the frame to the image size that's on the page already, but since you have to first define a frame size, if it's not right (in the sense that it's not the exact size as the image I'm placing into it), then adjusting the frame to the image doesn't work. This is simply because the image wasn't placed on the page correctly to begin with... If I'm not the last person to use Scribus for assembling this type of book with music notation references, I can guarantee you will hear from others complaining that they can't accurately insert their bitmap images of music on the page. All I'm suggesting is that the option should exist for cases where it makes more sense. It would be as simple as "Size frame to dimensions of image" You check the box, and when I click get picture, it takes those dimensions and plops the image on the page with a picture frame around the image, just like we do it for the web. Having the option is better than not having it to save the amount of frustration I went through playing with the image frame and its settings... Fortunately, I don't have to use the bitmap image anymore as I was able to successfully create an EPS that looks good and is the correct size to begin with, no distortion of the image whatsoever.. And now I'm going to the gym! =^D -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Image-frame-doesn%27t-make-any-sense-to-me-tf4381471.html#a12491391 Sent from the Scribus mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
