[scribus] images: fitting and filling the frame

[ale rimoldi]

hi greg

> I find that when I am doing this, the size and shape that I make an
> image frame is really somewhat arbitrary. I don't want it to be some
> precise size, and I only guess at the proportions it needs to be for
> a given image. I don't have an issue with fitting the frame to the
> image if needed, and if you're not showing the frame in some color,
> you don't have to resize the frame.

thanks for the feedback.

the problem arises when your frame should align exactly with something
outside of it (a border, the margins, a text line, ...)

currently, it's easy to align the frame, but it's not easy at all to
align the frame content.

and it can happen that you don't see the mismatch on screen
but you'll get it on print.



personally, what i often need (but you might not), is to reframe a
picture.

as an example, i'm getting a portrait photo and i have a square frame.
as you could read i have a workflow for doing that:

 -  Scale the image to to frame size.
 -  Let it be non proportional.
 -  Link the x and y scale to make the image proportional again.
 -  Move the image inside of the frame.
 -  Set the x-pos or y-pos so that there cannot be any padding bands.

you can try it out and you will see what i mean.

it would really nice for me (and it seems for other people too) to
get scribus to do that job for me.
it really speeds up the work.
and it's a common enough task.


personally, i don't have a need for the other enhancement (moving the
image when fitted to the frame) but it has been requested multiple
times and (imo) this is the way it should work: if you want to freely
move or rotate the content of the frame, there is the free scaling mode!


finally, as i wrote somewhere, i'm not 100% convinced that adding a
mode is the right way for filling the frame with the image, but it's
what seemed to be the most straightforward way.
if somebody has a better way to  do it, i will for sure consider it!

ciao
a.l.e