On 01/25/2017 02:58 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >>> You can do this by adjusting the scaling, but there are no measurements >>> to help you -- you just "eyeball it". >> >> Hi, Greg, >> >> Sorry for the late reply, other life activities took priority. LOL >> >> Scaling did what I was looking for, and I got things more or less >> centered. <G> >> >> It would be nice if, in a future version of Scrbus, the ability to >> automatically center the newly scaled image vertically and horizontally >> in the frame would be convenient. Along with next to each edge of the >> frame. >> >> > > Here is something that might help a bit. On the wiki there is a script > that will place guides at the borders of a frame or object: > > https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Making_Guides_at_an_Object%27s_Borders > > Here is a modification that will create borders inside the borders of a > frame, to create a space 80% of the original dimensions.
I've added to the wiki page another version, which allows you to choose the percentage reduction from a dialog. An example of usage is on the page. https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Making_Guides_at_an_Object%27s_Borders#setguides2inside.py Greg
