inicie.cropimage

This package provides image croppings for some images which reside in ATContentTypes fields in Plone. Those images can be cropped without losing the original images and without adding new images to blobs. It only sets the cropping dimension to the object annotations.

Tested With

• Plone-4.1.x
• Image and News Item Content Types.
• collective.contentleadimage

Further Documentation URL

http://packages.python.org/inicie.cropimage/

Repository URL

https://github.com/taito/inicie.cropimage/

How to crop image

1. Activate inicie.cropimage package through Add-ons configuration page.
2. Click link Crop Image Registry under Add-on Configuration.
3. Add ID with which the crop dimension will be stored.
4. Go to content type where you have croppable images.
5. From Actions, click Crop Image.
6. Select the name of ID.
7. Now you can drag over image to select the crop area.
8. Save the area.

How to use the cropped image on your template

For example:

<div tal:replace="structure python: context.restrictedTraverse('cropped-image')('image', 'small-image')" />

Here, image is the field name and small-image is the ID name.

cropped-image is a named view attribute of cropped_image derived from inicie.cropimage.browser.miscellaneous.Miscellaneous class.

class inicie.cropimage.browser.miscellaneous.Miscellaneous(context, request)

cropped_image(field, id_name)

Retuns html tag for the cropped image.

Parameters:

• field (str) – Field name.
• id_name (str) – ID name.

collective.contentleadimage

inicie.cropimage works with collective.contentleadimage, too. The image field name is leadImage, so use cropped image like:

<div tal:replace="structure python: context.restrictedTraverse('cropped-image')('leadImage', 'small-image')" />

Contents:

• Installation
• Changelog
  • 1.1 (2011-11-12)
  • 1.0 (2011-10-03)
• License
• Contributors
• Credits

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page