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February 22, 2008

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Ken

SUPER.... the funky way OpenOffice forced one to crop a picture was my single biggest reason for sticking with MS-Office. I do alot of technical illustrations, and I absolutely hated the manner in which OpenOffice functioned in this area. Thanks

bh

Hi. Thanks for the tip on where it installed and how it works, things the extension authors often omit.

I did initially get an error but after closing OOo and the quickstarter, the second time was perfect. In addition to Draw and Impress which the author mentions, I see it also made a Writer toolbar called "oooCrop" and seems to work. But I'd like to pass along my experiences with OOo cropping in general:

*WARNING* - OOo cropping does *NOT* remove the unwanted areas from the picture. It is not scissors.

OOo only stops presenting the unwanted information until someone says different.

If a picture previously cropped in OOo is selected and OOo's crop tool is opened, the entire original picture is shown in the viewer. There are bars at the current crop limits. The crop limits can easily be moved back to the original borders. Or with the ooocrop extension, the handles yanked outward and Enter pressed.

The ORIGINAL PICTURE, uncropped, is always in the XML ODF file and would be sent to any recipients (easily seen using any zip program, too).

So, consider OOo cropping like folding back the unwanted edge of a photo, rather than tearing it off. Anyone who peeks can see it.

This "unexpected disclosure of information" is not uncommon. I recall large headline embarassments with other brands of software over the years where "redacted" info was easily revealed. OOo has the "delete user data info" button on the File/Properties menu, so maybe they do mention how the crop feature works but maybe I missed it. Many folks expect crop is always like "cut."


Thanks again
Bh


Solveig

Hi bh,

Thanks for the tip! Good point, very good point. (Gimp can be used for true cropping.) That's how the regular crop function works so I guess it makes sense that this crop would work the same way.

Solveig

reiner

I tried for hours to get crop ooo to work. Thanks for your support - now it works perfect: Great job!

kui

thanks.. it works..

is there any way open office for next version will embed this function just like ms word did?

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