Automatically fitting A4 image to A4 page?
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.
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
Diederik,
On 2010-01-26 16:31, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
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?
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.
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:13:38 +1100, Philip Rhoades <phil@...2067...> 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
Diederik,
On 2010-01-27 02:43, Diederik van Lierop wrote:
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:13:38 +1100, Philip Rhoades<phil@...2067...> 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.
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
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