Cropping an Image

[William Van Hecke]

Hi,

Even if you used the Place Image command, or if you dropped an image  
file onto the canvas, the result is still a shape with an image on it.  
You can use the Image inspector to change the image scaling and follow  
John's steps normally.

Bill

On Aug 7, 2008, at 13:26, John Gersh wrote:

> 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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