Cropping an Image

[John Gersh]

The mechanism is a little obscure (at least in OG4; I'm still on Tiger so
that's what I'm using).

The key is that you don't start by placing the image in the document with
the Place Image... menu item. You have to put the image into a shape first:

Make a rectangle in the document. Ideally, start with one that has the
proportions of the image that you want to maintain. Go to the Image
inspector (Style>Image in the Inspector palette). Check Image and you'll get
a Select File dialog; choose the image file. Choose "Natural Size" in the
pull-down menu in the inspector. You can set the cropping by resizing the
containing rectangle or by using the Scale and Offset settings in the
inspector. You'll also see the visible portion of the image highlighted in
the image well in the inspector; you can drag that around as well.

- John Gersh



On 8/7/08 1:10 PM, "Vic DiFranco" <vjdif at prodigy.net> wrote:

> To OmniGraffle Support,
> 
> I am using OmniGraffle Pro, version 4.2.3, on a Macintosh Powerbook
> G4 under OS 10.4.11.
> 
> I have an imported image in OmniGraffle, which was originally
> scanned to a PDF file. I wish to crop the image, eliminating the top-
> most and bottom-most portions of the image, and keep only the center.
> But this must be done without changing the proportions of the image.
> 
> Can one of the experts in this forum tell me how that can be done? I
> know that Microsoft Word, a word processing application, allows
> cropping an image. I can't believe a great program like OmniGraffle
> does not support such a feature.
> 
> Best regards,
> Vic DiFranco
> 
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