[Scribus] resizing graphics inside a frame - a novice question

Owen Cook rcook
Mon Apr 10 07:30:33 CEST 2006


On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Gertjan Hofman wrote:

> 
> Having worked on a number of large software projects,
> mail messages like these can be annoying...but I would
> appreciate the help.
> 
> I want to do something very simple - insert a picture
> on a page without having to set the size in gimp. I
> create a picture frame, I Get Image and end up with a
> cropped image inside the frame. How can I scale the
> image inside  Scribus ? (i.e. fit the image to the
> frame) This seems so trivial but I have stared at the
> menus, read the manual and searched the archives. What
> makes me feel a little better is that my girlfriend, a
> professional book designer with years of
> Quark/InDesign experience can't work it out either.
> Surely this is possible ?
> 
> Perhaps it's a keyboard issue - I am runnng FC4, KDE
> 3.5, scribus 1.3.2. No combination of alt, ctrl seem
> to give the options I need. 
> 

Right click image
Select Properties->Image->Scale to frame size



Owen




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