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Title: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: Carl_bach on June 17, 2025, 08:09:39 AM

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: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: utnik on June 17, 2025, 01:09:52 PM
hi carl

did you read the answer from nermander in your other thread?

recent scribus versions have two properties panels, one for the object itself ('f2') and one for its content ('f3').

utnik
Title: Re: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: RodneyLee on June 17, 2025, 02:35:04 PM
you can alway crop the image in gimp and save by writing over the same image and refresh Scribus and wala, the image is cropped
Title: Re: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: AdmFubar on June 17, 2025, 08:20:52 PM
You can also adjust the size of the image as a "zoom" that will alter the crop. In the content properties panel you can adjust the image by percent or dpi. 
Double clicking on the image should put it in an editable mode that you can adjust the position in the frame. there will be a blue circle and crosshair denoting this mode. You can left click anywhere on the image and drag it around in the frame to position it.
Depending on the size of the image and the frame you may not be able to see the blue crosshair to note that you can position the image. just try clicking once and drag to see if you can.
Title: Re: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: Carl_bach on June 18, 2025, 09:30:02 PM
Thanks to all. I will give this a try.

I didn't see the reply from nermander, I sorry to say. I was having trouble signing in for some reason.

Does anyone know of any good tutorials on line?

Thanks again.
Title: Re: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: AdmFubar on June 18, 2025, 11:29:51 PM
this will be a start for tutorials
TJ Free
https://yewtu.be/playlist?list=PLqazFFzUAPc6U1RcNRBMeCK6Hg3g_S6aN

Top CLAX
https://yewtu.be/channel/UCrIp0aG829yrajFK-WIqyiw
Title: Re: Help with image import and cropping
Post by: Carl_bach on June 19, 2025, 06:05:09 PM
Thanks for these.