[scribus] Crop entire image.

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Aug 11 22:16:17 CEST 2008


John Culleton wrote:
> The online LSI book cover template program creates and sizes a book 
> cover image in eps format based on page count and paper type etc. 
> provided by the user.  If one is submitting to LSI the entire 
> template can be imported into Scribus and made the base layer.  After 
> the cover is laid out it can be sent back to LSI. Very spiffy. No 
> dimension calculations needed. 
>
> But wait, there is more. The same template can be safely used for 
> e.g., 360Digital Books. There is a slight difference in the allowance 
> for cover thickness (about .008 inch) but that is trivial.
>
> Unfortunately to use the same template for another printer there are 
> additional areas around the template proper that need to be trimmed 
> off.  I can of course import the .eps file into Gimp and crop it 
> there but I would prefer to crop it in  Scribus. 
>
> I found a way to crop an image frame in Scribus but not the whole 
> page.  I need to remove exactly 1.25 in off the left edge and 1.75 
> inch off the bottom.  
>
> Is there a function similar to the Gimp crop function that works on 
> the entire page? 
>   
Have you checked the BleedandPrintMarks script?

Greg




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