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Scribus => Beginner Talk => Topic started by: Carl_bach on June 14, 2025, 06:58:47 PM

Title: Image croping and scailing!
Post by: Carl_bach on June 14, 2025, 06:58:47 PM
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.
Title: Re: Image croping and scailing!
Post by: a.l.e on June 14, 2025, 09:19:59 PM
the details might depend on the version of scribus you're using.

but the basics are the same:


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Title: Re: Image croping and scailing!
Post by: Nermander on June 15, 2025, 09:15:51 AM
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.