[scribus] Crop entire image.
Gregory Pittman
gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Aug 11 22:16:17 CEST 2008
John Culleton wrote:
> The online LSI book cover template program creates and sizes a book
> cover image in eps format based on page count and paper type etc.
> provided by the user. If one is submitting to LSI the entire
> template can be imported into Scribus and made the base layer. After
> the cover is laid out it can be sent back to LSI. Very spiffy. No
> dimension calculations needed.
>
> But wait, there is more. The same template can be safely used for
> e.g., 360Digital Books. There is a slight difference in the allowance
> for cover thickness (about .008 inch) but that is trivial.
>
> Unfortunately to use the same template for another printer there are
> additional areas around the template proper that need to be trimmed
> off. I can of course import the .eps file into Gimp and crop it
> there but I would prefer to crop it in Scribus.
>
> I found a way to crop an image frame in Scribus but not the whole
> page. I need to remove exactly 1.25 in off the left edge and 1.75
> inch off the bottom.
>
> Is there a function similar to the Gimp crop function that works on
> the entire page?
>
Have you checked the BleedandPrintMarks script?
Greg
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