You are familiar with the scissors icon: It allows you to cut
something out of your document, which will then be really removed
– in this case parts of your raster graphic image. First, select
a raster graphic frame. If you click on the Crop or add to
image
icon and move the mouse pointer into the document window,
the pointer will change to the Set size
cursor, a hollow cross,
as soon as you click the left mouse button. You can use this cursor to
drag out a frame
, which we can call a limiting frame, within
the raster graphic frame the same way that you draw a new frame. The
portion of the image that lies within the limiting frame when you
click the mouse a second time will become the entire raster image and
form a new graphic frame. If the limiting frame is larger than the
raster graphic frame, Calamus will add a corresponding white border to
it. You can, or course, also define the position and size of the
limiting frame via the Coordinate display.
Warning: If you accidentally draw the limiting frame completely outside the original graphic, a blank frame will result, all the image contents will be lost and you will have to start again!
In order to obtain optimum output quality after this, you should
resize the image by clicking on the Optimize frame size for
printer
icon (see above).
So with the Crop or add to image
function you have the
option of selecting a portion of the image which will then be treated
as a new image. That saves memory space. If later you should change
your mind and want a somewhat larger portion, you will have to import
the original image into a frame once more. The same applies to the
margins around the actual graphic. Using this function makes these
margins really a part of the image which will be retained with all
size changes, but again occupies memory.
Calamus offers you great flexibility here, which you have to learn
to master, however. Just play around a bit with the possibilities
offered by the Center image in frame
, Image size independent
of frame size
and Crop or add to image
functions.
Learning by doing
is the motto here, so that you don't need to
use trial and error in your work ...
