Cropping images
When you are only interested in a section of the image for the purpose of your
document, you may wish to crop (cut off) parts of it. The user interface offered in
Writer for cropping an image is not very friendly, so it may be a better choice to use a
graphics package.
Note
If you crop an image in Writer, the picture itself is not changed. If you
export the document to HTML, the original image is exported, not the
cropped image.
To start cropping the image, right-click on it and select Picture from the pop-up
menu. In the Picture dialog box, select the Crop page.
In the Crop page, you can control the following parameters:
Keep scale / Keep image size
When Keep scale is selected (default), cropping the image does not change the
scale of the picture.
When Keep image size is selected, cropping produces enlargement (for positive
cropping values), shrinking (for negative cropping values), or distortion of the
image so that the image size remains constant.
Left, Right, Top, and Bottom
The image is cropped by the amount entered in these boxes. For example, a value
of 3cm in the Left box cuts 3 cm from the left side of the picture.
• When Keep scale is selected, the size of the image also changes, so in this
example the width will be reduced by 3 cm.
• When Keep image size is selected, the remaining part of the image is
enlarged (when you enter positive values for cropping) or shrunk (when you
enter negative values for cropping) so that the width and height of the image
remains unchanged.
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