[KLUG Members] resizing pictures in Scribus

[Mark Bystry]

Sorry that I didn't reply earlier.

Resizing your picture outside of Scribus is unnecessary. Just make an Image Frame>Richt-click,Get
Image>and bring in your photo. Right-click on your Image Frame>Properties>Image Tab>Scale to Frame
Size. Click the keep proportional box.

Mark

Eric Beversluis wrote the following on 11/28/2007 05:24 PM:
> Brock,
> Since no one else has jumped in, here are my guesses:
> 
> 1.  I don't know Scribus, but my guess is that you might have to resize
> the picture in GIMP or a similar program and then use it in Scribus.
> 2.  To minimize resizing, you might try setting your camera to a lower
> megapixel setting--this would give you a smaller pic to begin with .
> 
> EB
> 
> On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 17:16 -0500, Brock Inglehart wrote:
>> Plan on taking some pictures with my digital camera to make Christmas
>> cards.  But any of my digital pictures seem to be way to big when I
>> bring them in to the program.  How do I re-size the picture in Scribus
>> to get the whole picture?
>>
>> Brock