Image Sizing Problems

[Studdart]

I currently work for a newspaper, and we are at the moment working on making our property system more automatic, as the processing of all the text and images etc takes a large proportion on time within the production department.
We have just purchased a program called CAM inpart which works with our Front End system, Miles33 Futureproof, that organises, databases and inports all the information required for these full page adverts into Quark Xpress 6.5.

The problem we have is that the images are imported into Quark like Diagram 1.

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t104/Studdart/diagrams.jpg

There is no current function on our system, or in our version of quark, to "crop" the images within quark to fit the boxes as in Diagram 2, so our operators are ahving to manually fit image to box and input the appropriate percentage into each scale box to achieve the finished look.

What we want to know is, is there a Xtention for Quark Xpress 6.5 that would automatically do this for us, or at least create a function so that the operator would only have to press a button to complete this action.

[jimking]

My hunch is no. The reason it's coming in this way is it's placing the image 100% vertical and horizontal which is correct. To fill the picture box it will scew or stretch the image to fit, which is in most cases but not all, incorrect. Another words you want the pic to fit the box, not the box fit the pic.

[jimking]

Also, even if you don't want the pic to be scewed, lets say increasing the size to 175%, someone would have to adjust the position of the graphic inside the picture box anyway.

[Studdart]

no, I do not wish to fit the picture to box, I wish to more Centre the picture, with the smallest side of the image being fit to box, such as below:

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t104/Studdart/Diagram3.jpg

which is about 75% of the full size of the image

[panzer]

there is a quick way its the wrong way too

just pull your box measurements down so you just get whats above the outside of box wont be printed

[PrintDriver]

Panzer, are you talking about doc set up size?
Cheesy....

I think he is placing images in a layout, not a single image on a page.

[Studdart]

Panzer, are you talking about doc set up size?
Cheesy....

I think he is placing images in a layout, not a single image on a page.

Aye, the system works onto templates, that the program then imports into, and, of course the we could always crop the photos previously to this, but it then means that if that image goes in again, say the week after, thenthe image would have to be re-aquired and cropped again, if it goes into a different size box etc.

[panzer]

yes i am cheesy ya old Grand digi format dude
and dont you forgot it
and yes i was on about not a layout but a picture box etc

believe it or not but we get stuff from this guy who has been designing for 10 years got his degree from University etc and he does this (and he alway send us work that has the wrong bleed or no bleed grrrnah nah)
but as studdart says above crop pic to original size (is the right way)

damn i have to go to a course of learning i think

i need "how to convey ones self correctly"

[thelob]

Couldn't you make the picture box the same proportion as the photos and then place white rectangles on the top and bottom covering the picture as you wish. The image will import as a whole anf you would jsut blank off the unrequired area.

[urstwile]

Am I incorrect in thinking that what you're trying to do is fit frame to picture, as is available in InDesign?

I'm not sure if there's a Quark Xtension to do that.

[jimking]

urstwile, what Studdart is asking, I think, is there a plugin that will allow you to bring in new graphics into a already made template with text and picture boxes and it will automaticly place and crop the photos? I don't think there is. Read earlier in the thread and you'll see my opinion on this.