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

[NoOp]

On 02/26/2007 04:13 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:

> 
> Ouch. Make one little suggestion that a FL/OSS app doesn't work as
> well as a closed source app and some people are all over it ;-). Ah
> well, c'est la vie.
> 

Well I'm certainly confused... (won't be the first time); I hadn't used
Word in quite some time, but brought it up & opened a doc with graphics.
To "crop" the graphic I did the following:

- Right click on the graphic
- Selected Format Picture Object
- Select the "Picture" tab
- Looked at the 4 crop selections w/no graphic preview
- Made a WAG as to what dimensions I wanted the graphic to be cropped to
- selected 0.5" for all & clicked OK.

Nope... that wasn't what I wanted; undo, repeat above & guess again.

Opened the *same* document in OOo 2.1 and did the following:

- Right click on the graphic
- Selected Picture
- Select the "Crop" tab
- Looked at the 4 crop selections *with* graphic preview
- Adjusted the 4 (top bottom left right) dimensions while looking at the
preview & outline of where the crop was to end up.
- Clicked OK

Done.

Perhaps it's because my version of MS Word is '97?
c'est la vie