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0006229ScribusGraphics / Image Framespublic2025-06-25 05:42
ReporterTomZ Assigned To 
PrioritynormalSeverityminorReproducibilityalways
Status acknowledgedResolutionopen 
PlatformIndependentOSIndependentOS VersionIndependent
Summary0006229: Feature request: more units to edit an image's size
DescriptionThe size of an image inside an image frame can be adjusted in "Properties / Image / Free scaling" just in %-values. It would be nice to have here also the possibility to enter "real" dimensions in mm, Pixel or whatever.
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has duplicate 0006228 closed Feature requests for image frames 

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utnik

2025-06-24 19:01

updater   ~0052817

it might be an easy hack to include 'real dimensions' like inches, millimeters etc. – but not pixels! this image size doesn't edit the image itself…
we can already decide between 'percent' and 'pixels per inch' (called – as usual – but wrong 'dpi' instead of 'ppi')
i'm not sure if it helps in any real use case to insert a value of the 'real dimension' of the (partly hidden) image. it might rather be confusing.

ale

2025-06-25 05:29

manager   ~0052818

i don't see many use cases either.
most of the time the percentage is probably comfortable enough.

one possible example is: you want an image of a given size and the image inside of it to have a 1 cm padding.
you could then subtract 2 cm from both the width and height, then center the image.
personally, i don't like images that are not filling, but i've seen people asking for it.

all in all, i don't feel that this feature is needed, and if it's rather misleading we can for sure refrain from implementing it.

utnik

2025-06-25 05:42

updater   ~0052819

well, there seems to be at least one use case…

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
2007-09-17 19:36 TomZ New Issue
2007-09-17 19:39 cbradney Relationship added has duplicate 0006228
2007-09-17 21:32 christoph_s Status new => acknowledged
2015-09-17 20:10 Kunda Category Graphics / Image Frames => Graphics/Img Frames
2015-09-17 20:11 Kunda Category Graphics/Img Frames => Graphics / Image Frames
2025-06-23 16:16 ale Tag Attached: #easyhack
2025-06-24 19:01 utnik Note Added: 0052817
2025-06-25 05:29 ale Note Added: 0052818
2025-06-25 05:42 utnik Note Added: 0052819