Cropping image to page border.

[Patrick Luk]

Is there a way to crop automatically any imported images to the border of
the page ? Basically, any similarity of clipping as in Corel Photo Paint ?

Thanks!

[Serge Fateeff [C_Tech]]

No, there is not (meaning Shape Tool method).

One option is PowerClip - double click Rectangle Tool to add page-sized
rectangle and then Effects>PowerClip>Place Inside Container your bitmap
into this rectangle.

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Serge
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[Trevor Hanson]

> One option is PowerClip - double click Rectangle Tool to add page-sized
> rectangle and then Effects>PowerClip>Place Inside Container your bitmap
> into this rectangle.

I don't seem to be able to use this with bitmaps -- the 'Place Inside
Container'
menu option is grayed out for my bitmaps. I must be extra dense, but I
don't see any way to trim/crop my drawings. This seems like the most
basic kind of operation. I see several tools that purport to address this,
viz. the knife, trim, intersect, and power clip, but none of them work
on my composite pix consisting of Corel draw objects and bitmaps.
Which of course is the whole point of a package like this, I'd think.
I can mask portions off with white rectangles, but that is a bit
inconvenient
for managing these objects. I could export them as bitmaps and
crop them, of course, but that changes the behavior of the image
a lot when it's scaled later.

So am I missing something, or is there really no way to do what I
want, i.e. chop the margins off a composite drawing?

Thanks for any comments -- Trevor

[Sandy Menor]

Choose the node tool with the bitmap selected. You will see nodes at all
four corners. Select them and move them as you wish. When done, choose "Crop
Bitmap". That's all there is to it. Also, the eraser function crops the
bitmap in an irregular shape if needed by erasing all the unnecessary white
space around the bitmap.

HTH
Sandy

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[RichZ]

In article <3a74ec34@cnews>, Trevor Hanson wrote:
> I don't seem to be able to use this with bitmaps
>

You place a bitmap inside a vector, not the other way around. Two
ways to do this.

1, select the bitmap or other object(s) to be cropped, then go to
Effects|Power Clip|Place inside Container on the main menu, then
point the big arrow at the vector object you want the selected
object(s) to be placed inside of.

2, Right click/drag the bitmap or group of objects to the container
you wish them to reside in, and when the cursor changes to a little
target looking thing, release the right mouse button and select
powerclip inside from the popup menu.

There is another way to crop bitmaps as well. Select the bitmap and
use the shape tool to node edit its container. you can keep it
rectangular, or you can add node, convert to curves, or any of the
other node editing functions that are available for vector objects.

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