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To crop a selected picture interactively, click the Crop icon on the
Picture toolbar (Figure 60). A set of crop marks appears around the
picture (see Figure 63).
Figure 63: Interactive crop marks
When you place the cursor over any of the crop marks, the cursor
changes shape. Drag the mark to crop the picture. Click outside the
picture to deactivate cropping mode.
To crop using the dialog box, right-click a selected picture and choose
Crop Picture (or choose Format > Crop Picture from the menu bar).
Figure 64: The options available when cropping a picture
The Crop dialog box (Figure 64) has the following options:
Keep scale / Keep image size buttons: when
Keep scale
is
selected (default), cropping the image does not alter the scale of
the picture. When
Keep image size
is selected, cropping produces
enlargement (for positive cropping values), shrinking (for
negative cropping values), or distortion of the image so that the
image size remains constant.
Left, Right, Top, and Bottom: the function of these boxes
changes according to the choice made between
Keep scale
and
Keep image size
. In both cases, when a value is entered in one of
these boxes, the image is cropped by that amount. For example, a
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