In Xara Xtreme for windows (4.0 and above) that's much simpler : every time you import an image it's automatically treated as a quadrangle with a bitmap fill (not as a clipped image).
________________________________ De : "J.B.C.Engelen@...1578..." <J.B.C.Engelen@...1578...> À : steren.giannini@...400...; theadib@...1439... Cc : inkscape-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Francois.Petit@...2281... Envoyé le : Mar 1 Décembre 2009, 23 h 04 min 58 s Objet : Re: [Inkscape-devel] New student project : better image management
One feature that would be really nice if one can "node-edit" an image, which crops it. What I mean is: select an image, switch to the node tool, then knots appear on the 4 corners of the image. When the knots are moved, a clipping mask is applied to the image and the knots (and corresponding path) belong to this clipping path.
sorry if the explanation is too brief. I think CorelDraw has this behavior which sounds very nice to me. See the "simple crop" procedure here http://www.engrave.ca/archives/1210.
I am planning on working on this feature, but if the students want to create it, I'm happy to let them ;) It'd be nice if the student's work could take this future behavior into account, by providing a "remove clipping path" button in the dialog for example.
Cheers, Johan
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