On 9/5/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
Why are people calling it cropping? What are they actually planning on using it for? Calling it cropping implies how they might expect it to work (like a crop tool as opposed to a button in a Page Setup dialog).
A crop tool is different because it allows you to adjust cropping manually by dragging. What was proposed was just "crop canvas to drawing", a one-time operation, logically placed where all other ways to resize the canvas are (i.e. in doc prefs).
You need to change canvas size of the document; naturally you go to Document Prefs, and that's where you find the crop button.
I really wish you wouldn't make assertions like that. Repeating your point without adding to it is unhelpful and quite frustrating and gives me nothing to work with and instead allows you to just pick at what I have to say. If it is so natural it should be quite easy for you to explain.
I don't see what needs explaining here. I'm just answering your points. If I'm repeating myself, this may be because you're not saying anything new either :)
If you tell a user to crop the page they might look for a Crop tool (GIMP, Photoshop etc). To me that seems by far the most natural thing to do, it even more closely matches the metaphor of taking a knife and slicing off the edges from a picture.
Alternatively they might look for something to "Image, Resize Canvas" perhaps "Object, Resize Canvas" based on their experience of other programs.
Hey, why are you giving Photoshop as an example? We're supposed to be an Illustrator clone, aren't we? (at least according to you :) Well then, Illustrator has NEITHER crop tool nor "resize canvas". Do you think there may be a reason for that?