[scribus] Crop entire image.

[John Culleton]

On Monday 11 August 2008 04:16:17 pm Gregory Pittman wrote:
> 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

If I read that correctly it adds crop _marks_. I want to crop the 
page, in other words trim off the excess part of the page image and 
reduce its size, the same way the crop tool does in Gimp. 


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