Re: clippping figures in Lyx

[Paul A. Rubin]

UK wrote:
The behavior of the CLIPPING function in LyX seems mysterious.  Entering 
numbers for the x,y coordinates (offsets?) of the bottom left or upper 
right does not produce the expected result: things move, but not by the 
correct amounts or even direction.  What am I doing wrong?


They work for me (other than some trial-and-error pain in most cases). 
You need to know the dimensions of the original image, and you need to 
specify units as well as amounts for the offsets.  You also need to 
check the "Clip to bounding box" option.  Avoid the "Get from file" 
button, unless you want to use it to get the original dimensions of the 
document.

There was a bug a few versions back that would cause LyX to forget your 
bounding box settings under certain circumstances.  I haven't 
encountered that in recent versions, but you didn't specify a version or 
platform.  It's easy enough to verify that LyX is (or is not) 
remembering your settings, though.

Cheers,
/Paul