Resizing Draw frame within Writer without warping and distorting the drawing

[jcramirezD]

Hello,
I’m running LO version 7.0.4.2 on Mac OS X10.16

In Writer, I insert a Draw object. In the Draw canvas I create my drawing which is much smaller than the space of the canvas. When I exit Draw, the end result looks like in the attached file – with a frame much larger than the drawing.

However, when I resize the frame to a smaller size (double click the Draw object and then resize frames), the image gets warped and zoomed and the frame actually gets bigger. How do I resize the frame so that the drawing remains unchanged and I can sort of “crop out” all the extra white space?

Thanks!

[Hrbrgr]

In Draw you have to select the object and then Ctrl+C.

In Writer Ctrl+V. It should look like this:

You may have selected Export in Draw.

In this case you also have to select the object and click on “Selection” below the file name when exporting.

[jcramirezD]

Thanks so much. Harald.
It doesn’t work.
In OpenOffice I am able to do what I need. I’ve attached a screenshot of before and after resizing the frame (in OpenOffice), to cut out all the white space and just encompass the drawing. The drawing itself is unchanged.

For some reason, when I do this in LO, the drawing gets zoomed in, its like it is changing the length scales of the Draw object.

[EarnestAl]

As I understand it, your workflow is:

1. In Writer click Insert > Object > OLE Object, in the dialogue that opens you select LibreOffice 7.0 Drawing, Create New then OK

2. You create your drawing and then click back on the page.

3. You right click on the object and select Insert caption

4. You then attempt to crop the drawing by altering the size of the ole container but it expands instead.

I suggest to swap steps 3 and 4 so you “crop” before inserting a caption.

I think the second frame (caption frame) is causing the issue for you as resizing that also resizes the inner frame. I suspect you are getting the reverse effect where the inner frame is resizing its contents to maintain its frame size. The difference between your images, 1 with a caption and later image without a caption, points to this.
Of course, @Hrbrgr suggestion to create the image separately in Draw and just paste it in solves the issue. The drawing can still be edited in place or copied back to Draw for more complex editing and pasted back afterwards.
Cheers, Al

[jcramirezD]

Thanks!
Your steps describe my workflow exactly.

Your suggestion solved the issue. Thanks!