Issue 61991 is only partially a duplicate of this one. This issue has dealt exclusively with adding a cropping tool to Writer. Issue 61991 (and 74099, which I created and which was marked as a duplicate of 61991) deal with that AND with adding the same capability to Calc.
Because of that, and because of Bjorn's comment (in 61991) about "writing a short rationale", I decided to copy my statement from issue 74099 below. --- copied from 74099 & 61991 --- I have long found that when I need to print something from the computer screen, the easiest way to do it was to hit PrintScreen, then paste it into an Excel spreadsheet, then crop and resize it till I have what I want. For instance, I frequently want to crop & overlay two Google Maps screenshots so they fit together. Or save an entire year of cropped screenshots of payroll tax confirmation screens on the same spreadsheet page. (For me, Excel does these things far more easily than Word or Paint.) For years I've occasionally tried the same thing using first OpenOffice Calc 3.x and now LibreOffice 4.0.x, and found that it is much more difficult. Calc brings up a window with measurements you can change, and its own small snapshot of the graphic that shows where you are moving the borders to. It works, but it is hard to get it just right. You cannot see it well, and must repeatedly invoke the tool, change the measurements, and quit the tool to see what you've really got. It takes several iterations to get it where you want it. Excel's cropping tool (at least as far back as Excel 97) allows the mouse to grab the handles on the graphic's edges and drag them where you want them, which is far easier both to see and to do. PLEASE add a mouse tool that can be used directly on the image in the spreadsheet. The cropping icon could still bring up the window (for those who prefer it), and then a button in that window could replace the window with the mouse tool. --- end of copy --- Thanks, Tim -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to libreoffice in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/491746 Title: [Upstream] No interactive crop in Writer Status in LibreOffice Productivity Suite: Confirmed Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite: Unknown Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Bug description: Binary package hint: openoffice.org OpenOffice.org Writer in both Karmic and Lucid appears to lack the interactive crop feature. This feature is present in Draw, and in Windows Writer builds. WORKAROUND: Secondary click picture -> click Picture... -> tab Crop. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Thu Dec 3 18:08:10 2009 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: openoffice.org-writer 1:3.1.1-5ubuntu1 ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-5.6-generic SourcePackage: openoffice.org Uname: Linux 2.6.32-5-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/df-libreoffice/+bug/491746/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
