Am 24.11.2015 um 11:11 schrieb Fritz Eichelhardt: > @christian: > your name sounds german. > you can phone me, and we'll make it per phone. > 01573-9624314
Thanks, Fritz, for your offer, but I prefer answers to the list so that others that have the same problem/question will profit as well. It would be very kind if you could share your expertise on the list :-) Best regards Chris > 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 >> >
