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

[Patton Echols]

On 02/24/2007 10:56 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 24/02/07, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 2/24/07, Eric Dunbar <eric.dunbar at gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>>> If all you need to do is resize, crop, simple color adjust, etc., then
>>>> the gThumb image viewer that comes with Ubuntu ought to do what you
>>>> want. It's pretty straightforward. Just right-click on an image and
>>>> choose "Open With ...--> gThumb Image Viewer"
>>>>         
>>> I must agree -- cropping images just doesn't seem to exist in FLOSS.
>>>       
>> uh... Did you try gThumb image viewer as I suggested? It crops quite
>> nicely. I'm not sure what you're agreeing with.
>>     
>
> Sorry, the context was not properly articulated. ... should have
> been... in the apps where it was needed (OO.org and Abiword) it wasn't
> an option to crop effectively (or at all) and that's where the
> functionality was needed. Jumping to another app was an onerous step
> when (ugh) Word could do it cleanly and with no fuss whatsoever.
> Anyway, I suspect (hope) that somone's working on a functional crop
> for OO.org.
>   
While I have no direct knowledge of it, I recall being told that ughWord 
does not actually crop an image, What it is actually doing is applying a 
mask for what you want to see.  Even though the data is forever hidden 
from the user (except through "undo") it stays in the document, adding 
to it's size.  This was given to me as an explanation of why Word will 
occasionally choke on files w/ many pictures.  For me, I don't find it 
onerous to open another application, it is no different than opening the 
Word file selector.  Edit your image to suit, copy the image or a part, 
and paste into Open Office . . .  no more steps really, and you don't 
have to fiddle with Word's kludgy and non intuitive menus.