https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=161515
Bug ID: 161515
Summary: Ability to cut image object in two pieces along a line
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 24.8.0.0 alpha1+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: Draw
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
When one is physically arranging pieces of paper or other printed material on a
page or drawing board (i.e. not on a computer, not with LibreOffice) -
sometimes one cuts the graphical items for the purposes of placement and
combination. One kind of cut is cropping a frame around a part of the piece of
print; another one is cutting up a single printed piece into multiple smaller
pieces.
In LibreOffice Draw, and for images, we support the first kind of cutting-up on
an image, via the Crop command (on the image's context menu). But - we don't
support using a single line to make a cut. I suggest we have this support.
As for the UI for this - there could be multiple approaches here.
* One option is to support dragging a horizontal or vertical line (or both?),
so that the complexity of the operation is limited - just like with cropping,
we don't support drawing an arbitrary path along which to crop.
* Another possibility is to let the user freely draw a line (with Shift
allowing them to make the line straight, even though users are more likely to
want to cut along one of the main axes).
* A third option is to require an actual line-segment object to use as the
guide for cutting; but this is very much unlike how we crop.
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