How do I make an image occupy the whole page space?

[Puffer]

Greetings everyone!

This is my first post so please let me know if I'm doing something wrong. I suppose this is the correct board to post my doubt:

I want to use Scribus to edit my comic book for print. Usually American comic books are printed in 8,4 cm x 26,7 cm. This is the exact size I choose my Scribus document to be. All of my comic pages were done in an A3 size (300 PPI), and they already contain the white margins, meaning that they should occupy each Scribus' document page to its fullest and still show the "white margins". Page example:
https://imgur.com/a/n7M7Ikw

Given the description above my Scribus' document also does not posses any margin nor bleed either. My issue is the following: once I add an image box (with the snap to grids option ON), I select the whole page. Afterwards I simply add the desired image, which is bigger than the document's page. I then select ITEM > ADJUST > ADJUST IMAGE TO FRAME. The final result however leaves me with a white border at the bottom of the page, see example:
https://imgur.com/a/JblgugU

According to my calculations the image should fit the whole page without any left overs. If I save an image with a smaller resolution, but with the doocument's page size from the beginning the issue is not present. How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance!

[PatJr]

maybe it's the aspect ratio?
did you try unchaining it to see if the image gets stretched to fill that area?
 

[Puffer]

Small correction:

18,4 cm x 26,7 cm.

maybe it's the aspect ratio?
did you try unchaining it to see if the image gets stretched to fill that area?

Weirdly enough I don't end up with a stretched image, it simply keeps on being "chained", even though it shouldn't. I'm assuming you mean the chain in the properties of the image (F2). Still no luck. But again, it shouldn't be the aspect ratio since I can resize the image elsewhere (chaining the width and height), and them import it to Scribus to fill the whole page.

EDIT: Yes I can stretch it in the content properties (F3), though the image gets distorted.

[a.l.e]

i guess that it would help a lot if you could share a (sample) .sla and a (sample) image (of the same size) that show the problem...

[Puffer]

i guess that it would help a lot if you could share a (sample) .sla and a (sample) image (of the same size) that show the problem...

Sure thing!

Here's a Google Drive link containing an A3 sized image and a document with it in. I'm not sharing an actual page since the comic is fairly violent, and most pages that aren't violent contain white borders so it'd be hard to verify...

Folder

[a.l.e]

page ratio:
18.40 / 26.70 = 0.689138576779

image ratio:
3508 / 4960 = 0.707258064516

it's not the same ratio.

[Puffer]

page ratio:
18.40 / 26.70 = 0.689138576779

image ratio:
3508 / 4960 = 0.707258064516

it's not the same ratio.

Ohh I see... How can I calculate the correct measure then? I know that the image is 3508px x 4960px, and I need the page to be at least 26.7cm tall. Is there a formula for it or do I simply solve for W (width)? I'm really new to this so I have little to no idea...

[a.l.e]

i would say:

Code Select Expand

3508 : 4960 = x : 26.7
4960 * x = 3508 * 26.7
x = 3508 * 26.7 / 4960
x = 18.8837903226
and you can check it:

Code Select Expand

18.88 / 26.7 = 0.707116104869
which is about the same as the ratio between 3508 and 4960 you can look up in the previous post.

p.s.: this is probably one of the most useful formula one should have learned in school... one of the few that almost everybody can use from time to time in real life : - )

[Puffer]

i would say:

Code Select Expand

3508 : 4960 = x : 26.7
4960 * x = 3508 * 26.7
x = 3508 * 26.7 / 4960
x = 18.8837903226
and you can check it:

Code Select Expand

18.88 / 26.7 = 0.707116104869
which is about the same as the ratio between 3508 and 4960 you can look up in the previous post.

p.s.: this is probably one of the most useful formula one should have learned in school... one of the few that almost everybody can use from time to time in real life : - )

I see, it works now. As it often is, user error. Thank you very much. I couldn't find an etiquette page/forum rules; do I need to mark this thread as solved/resolved somehow?