[KLUG Members] resizing pictures in Scribus

[Mark Bystry]

 > It sure isn't intuitive is it.

Yeah, I think you're right. Once you get the hang of the interface then you'll move right along. I'm 
sure that you're up to that point by now. I use Scribus for most things but for some really complex 
stuff I have to fall back to Windows and Adobe InDesign. :(

Mark

Brock Inglehart wrote the following on 11/28/2007 9:02 PM:
> Got it Mark.  I figured it wasn't hard but didn't know where to look.
> It sure isn't intuitive is it.  
> 
> THANKS FOR THE HELP.
> 
> Brock
> 
> On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 19:12 -0500, Mark Bystry wrote:
>> 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
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