PageStream permanently cropped my source images.

I'm not sure how exactly this happened, but it seems that the crop
function in PageStream (Amiga 4.1.x) permanently cropped my source
images.

I was using several high resolution TIFFs in PageStream (as external
images). I cropped the images within PageStream using the crop
pointer. I also grouped several of the cropped images.

The next day, I decided to try a whole different layout approach, and
so ungrouped the images. Then I tried to "uncrop" them. I wasn't
able to.

Upon loading the external images into an image editor (ImageFX) I
found that the external source images had been cropped where I had
done this in PageStream. They had actually been altered to the point
where data (portions of the image) were now gone forever.

I always thought the crop pointer function in PageStream was non-
destructive! I was very surprised at this, and am not entirely sure
how I accomplished it. Perhaps it was a function of cropping and
grouping the images together.

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Hi,

It sounds like either something else is to blame, or you are leaving
some steps out. PageStream has _no_ code to destructively crop an image
so you couldn't have done it in PageStream even by accident or bug.
Second, the only way to change an external image from within PageStream
is to export over the existing external image or use the send to editor
script. Maybe you did that? BME can crop an destructively. So if you
select the image in PageStream, choose Send to Editor, crop it in BME,
save it and quit BME and when you return to PageStream the image will
update (and of course be cropped/edited as you did in BME or whatever
image editor you have set as your editor in PageStream).

The crop tool in PageStream is certainly not destructive!

Deron

>; I'm not sure how exactly this happened, but it seems that the crop
> function in PageStream (Amiga 4.1.x) permanently cropped my source
> images.
>
> I was using several high resolution TIFFs in PageStream (as external
> images). I cropped the images within PageStream using the crop
> pointer. I also grouped several of the cropped images.
>
> The next day, I decided to try a whole different layout approach, and
> so ungrouped the images. Then I tried to "uncrop" them. I wasn't
> able to.
>
> Upon loading the external images into an image editor (ImageFX) I
> found that the external source images had been cropped where I had
> done this in PageStream. They had actually been altered to the point
> where data (portions of the image) were now gone forever.
>
>; I always thought the crop pointer function in PageStream was non-
>; destructive! I was very surprised at this, and am not entirely sure
> how I accomplished it. Perhaps it was a function of cropping and
> grouping the images together.
>
>

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