Cropping photos (Astronomy, Graphics & Video Software [WAS: VMWare / Wine))

[Matthew Flaschen]

Eric Dunbar wrote:
> I must agree -- cropping images just doesn't seem to exist in FLOSS.
> Recently I was trying to use only FLOSS to set up a file (so that I
> knew I could tell some students it was possible). I tried OO.org,
> Abiword and GIMP and ended up firing up MS Word because the FL/OSS
> couldn't manage to present an intuitive cropping facility. GIMP could
> but it was nowhere quick, Abiword and OO.org simply couldn't manage it
> (I think one of the two offered an interface that you could TYPE in
> some constraints but this is 2007, NOT 1984!!!).

That's apparently OO (even in Draw), which I agree is a major
deficiency.  It's a known bug
(http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19665)

> Anyway, my encounter with OO.org and Abiword wasn't all bad. OO.org is
> as oversized as Word without some of the more useful pieces of Word
> (most notably Word compatibility ;-)

The compatibility has usually worked for me.  What problems have you had?

Matthew Flaschen

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