People, After I have scanned an A4 page, it would be nice to import it into Inkscape and automatically fit it to the A4 outline to continue work on the page (to add text and signature images etc to it) but it doesn't seem possible? I have to manually scale the image which is fairly tedious . . Suggestions? Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au
on 25.01.2010 23:22
on 26.01.2010 06:32
On 01/25/2010 11:21 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > People, > > After I have scanned an A4 page, it would be nice to import it into > Inkscape and automatically fit it to the A4 outline to continue work on > the page (to add text and signature images etc to it) but it doesn't > seem possible? I have to manually scale the image which is fairly > tedious . . > It's not fully automatic, but did you consider snapping to the page borders? Diederik
on 26.01.2010 14:21
Diederik,
On 2010-01-26 16:31, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
> borders?
I just tried it and it seems to work with a graphic that is smaller than
the page borders to begin with but not with a graphic that is larger
than the page borders? I am using:
inkscape-0.47-0.17.pre4.20091101svn.fc12.x86_64
Thanks,
Phil.
--
Philip Rhoades
GPO Box 3411
Sydney NSW 2001
Australia
E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au
on 26.01.2010 16:44
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:13:38 +1100, Philip Rhoades <phil@pricom.com.au> wrote: > I just tried it and it seems to work with a graphic that is smaller than > the page borders to begin with but not with a graphic that is larger > than the page borders? That's strange and is not what I would expect. I cannot reproduce this either. Are you stretching or scaling? Constrained or unconstrained (i.e. with or without the ctrl key)? Diederik
on 26.01.2010 17:06
Diederik, On 2010-01-27 02:43, Diederik van Lierop wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:13:38 +1100, Philip > Rhoades<phil@pricom.com.au> wrote: >> I just tried it and it seems to work with a graphic that is smaller >> than the page borders to begin with but not with a graphic that is >> larger than the page borders? > > That's strange and is not what I would expect. I cannot reproduce > this either. Are you stretching or scaling? Constrained or > unconstrained (i.e. with or without the ctrl key)? Stretching and unconstrained - if I initially drag the sides of the bitmap together so that it fits entirely inside the borders of the page, then stretch each side toward the border - THEN it snaps as expected . . Snapping like this is an improvement but it would still be nice to have a single command that would fit the bitmap to the borders. Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Rhoades GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia E-mail: phil@pricom.com.au
on 26.01.2010 19:34
On 01/26/2010 05:05 PM, Philip Rhoades wrote: > Stretching and unconstrained - if I initially drag the sides of the > bitmap together so that it fits entirely inside the borders of the > page, then stretch each side toward the border - THEN it snaps as > expected . . I just realized what's going on here: only points can be snapped, which are in this case the four corners of the image. If you're stretching an image that is initially larger than the page, then these corners might not cross the page border (depending on where the image is positioned), and will therefore no snapping will occur. Diederik