Thanks for the reply, Aaron.

I don't want to work in PNG mode because there is an obvious quality disadvantage when I resize the figure later inside Word. That's why I am using EMF. The quality is very good in EMF mode.

Regards,

-----Original Message----- From: Aaron Elmquist Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 2:29 PM Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] Of cut, paste, and crop

This is cheesey but might work. I say might because I'm at work and don't have Inkscape in front of me. You might also want to work from a copy of the file. Group the entire image. Create a shape around the area you want to keep. Select the grouped image and the shape created in step 2. Clip - Set. Export to PNG to the desired dimensions. Word seems to play nicely with PNGimages.

On 5/14/07, kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... <kc106_2005-inkscape@...12... > wrote: Hi list,

I suppose this is slightly OT.

I need to copy and paste a portion of my figure over to Word. I realize that I can't just do an Edit -> Copy -> switch to Word -> Paste (although that would be nice). So, I have to do it by creating a new file, save it as EMF file, and then switch over to Word, do an Insert -> Picture - From File. That works. However, the resulting figure is a full page figure - with lots of empy space. I also realize that there is no crop feature in Inkscape. So, can somebody please point me to a tool that can crop the EMF file so I can import it into Word?

Thanks,

-- John Henry

-- John Henry