@christian: your name sounds german. you can phone me, and we'll make it per phone. 01573-9624314
Am 24.11.2015 um 10:52 schrieb scribus-request at lists.scribus.net: > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:29:16 +0100 > From: Christian Mandel <c.mandel at gmx.net> > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Subject: [scribus] Fit photograph to frame > Message-ID: <n2vbcb$ceh$1 at ger.gmane.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > Hi! > > I try to make a photo book with Scribus (v1.5.0) and I fail with the > simplest tasks. I hope someone can show me how to solve these problems. > My current problem is to fit pictures into picture frames. I create a > frame of the size that I want and load a picture into this frame. > Usually, the aspect ratio of frame and picture are different. Therefore, > I want to fit it to the frame so that the frame is entirely filled but > the picture is not distorted and then align the picture inside the frame. > > Scribus natively has (if I'm right) only the option to fill the frame so > that the whole picture is visible and part of the frame stays empty. > There are two scripts that try to solve the problem: Image Wizard and > Image Wizard Advanced. I select the frame and run the scripts. With > Image Wizard I press "scale to fill" but what I get is an about 3 times > larger picture than needed (about 600 %, about 200 % would suffice). > Image Wizard Advanced, on the other hand, does not respect the original > image's aspect ratio with the fill command. > > What is the correct way of fitting images into empty frames when the > frame size is fix? Is manually copying the higher percentage after > scaling without preserved aspect ratio the only option? > > Thanks and best regards > > Chris > -- Fritz Eichelhardt
