[scribus] Cropping Scribus image

Carl Symons carlsymons at gmail.com
Fri May 21 18:07:55 CEST 2010


> Date: Thu, 20 May 2010 09:09:41 -0400
> From: John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com>
> Subject: [scribus] Cropping Scribus image.
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>
> I have a book cover in a Scribus file with all three panels (back,
> spine, front) in one page. I want to cut off the back and spine,
> leaving just the front, and save it as a pdf.  I can do this easily in
> Gimp but that means converting to a bitmap and to RGB.
>
> Is there a reasonable way in Scribus to cut off the back and spine
> and save a pdf file just with the dimensions and content of the
> front panel?
> --
> John Culleton

How about:
Copy As "NewFile"
Use the X,Y,Z controls to resize the image
Use the image controls to place the image properly

Or, if it's text only:
Resize the text box
And edit with the Story Editor




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