On Monday 16 June 2014 21:47:54 Jon Elson did opine And Gene did reply: > On 06/16/2014 10:59 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > So I fired up gimp & cut the outer edges off it, but > > regardless of the edit or crop functions I have tried, ALL > > saved images remain the same size as the original, with > > 100+k of white space included. > > OK, in gimp, select the box selection tool at top left of > the toolbox, then > select the area you want. right click in the graphical > window and select > edit/cut. then left click outside the selected region to > clear the selection. > Then, select edit/clear, then edit/paste, and drag the upper > right corner to the upper right corner of the window. then left > click outside the region to clear the selection. then select > image/autocrop to remove the blank surrounding. > > Yes, this is a lot of clicking, and there probably is a > better way > to do it, but this works for me. > > After the autocrop, you can rescale the image if you want, > before > saving it. > > Jon > I did eventually get it and posted it to both you and the list. It seemed to work well, and I hope is was of some use to your forum poster if you relayed it. ISTR I had a username & PW for the forum once, beaucoup years ago, but having switched ISP's at least twice, I haven't a clue what they may have been.
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