Image croping and scailing!

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Carl_bach

I have downloaded the software onto a Mac using an M1 Pro.

Having had enough of Mac's no right to repair and other rubbish, I'm looking to go Linux, so I'm trying out software that I think can replace Affinity Suite. I'm a freelance designer, and I dumped Adobe and more for Affinity a couple of years ago. I would stick with Affinity in the future, but they don't release for Linux.

I have been on YouTube to watch some tutorials.

It appears that to crop an image inside an image box you should open properties and go to image. There is no image inside the properties panel. Am I doing something wrong, has the software changed, or is it because I'm using a Mac?

Can anyone advise?

Many thanks.

a.l.e

the details might depend on the version of scribus you're using.

but the basics are the same:

  • you should have "Content palette" somewhere (or a properties palette with an "image" section)
  • you can double click on an image frame and move around the image inside of it.
  • or you can press the "e" key to enter the edit mode and move the image around.
  • currently, i'm not aware of any way to scale the image (inside of the frame) with the mouse, but you can scroll the percentage in the horizontal / vertical scale in the dimensions part of the image properties (in the Properties or Content palette...)

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Nermander

If I don't recall wrong you cannot really "crop" the image, what you can do is make the image frame smaller than the image (so only a part of it is visible). This gives the same appearance as cropping, however it is useful to be aware of the the full image will be in the generated PDF, even if only part of it is visible.

But I think the issue here might be that in older versions there was just one properties panel, now there are two. One for the object and one for the contents.