Reassigned to requirements.

+1 for this, it is an areas where MSOffice is leaps and bounds ahead - accurate
cropping is virtually impossible with the current crop tool.

*** Issue 69096 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

+1, the current crop dialog is hardly usable (at least by myself)
writing the crop size (in inches) and previewing by a tiny little box with
almost not visible content is not very comfortable.

thanks in advance!

I've hit this too - it hurts specially for screenshots, but also for
non-pre-cropped scans... From where I come from, I used to use this quite
frequently.

This is especially annoying when you have dual screens and both are included in
the original image.

When it comes to cropping you see a tiny overview of the entire image and it is
virtually impossible to see an exact area.

This is the one and ONLY feature that requires me to go back to MS Office from
time to time.

PLEASE! sort it!

Initially submitted 1 year ago... is this something that might get into a build
in the near future?

This is definitely an important issue in my opinion. Even to be able to expand
the current dialogue and drag the borders rather than entering values would be
an improvement, but ideally handles should be implemented.

It's very important for me

+1 
It would be very useful for MSOffice users on the way to migrate to OOo. Most of
them used to this crop tool find this as a lack in OOo. A lack that could be
enough to prevent them from migrating.
Please, sort this out ! :-) Thanks in advance.

please make sure that you vote on the change, i'm not sure that comments alone
count toward the urgency of the feature update.

Maybe this extension : http://www.alicvb.com/Programmes/cropooo/index.php can be
consider as a workaround for this issue...

I have voted for this a long time ago. I installed the cropooo extension via the
extension manager and it works very well in Presenter, thank you so much. It is
great, and does all I need. I will keep it around. In Writer I could not find a
menu entry or icon in my OOwriter 2.3.0. I added manually the
cropOoo.Module1.main macro to the Picture toolbar. But after clicking the new
icon, defining the crop rectangle and hitting enter, the result is not
calculated correctly. The image jumps, and the cropping borders seem inverted in
some cases. Thanks again !

I voted for this. The lack of this tool is more or less a show stopper. Even
though it works, the dialog is a poor replacement. I understand that this may
not be trivial coding, but for me, this is an important tool, and I miss it a
lot (from msoffice).

AlicVB's cropooo extension (http://www.alicvb.com/Programmes/cropooo/) seems
unstable in my environment. 

I'm the developper of the extension 'CropOOo'.
Please feel free to post messages on the forum http://forum.alicvb.com if you
experience some problems... (This is a French Forum, but you can post in English...)

AlicVB

Yes this something that open office needs as many people use it. it a fast way
to crop a image and saves the user time 
This  is one thing that keap Ms office that one step up 

Hope one day we can do this in open office as it is a much better office program
but it just need a quick and fast way to crop images 
 

Please see http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS/entry/improved_picture_cropping_for_draw 

I couldn't believe it when I couldn't crop in the same way as MS Office. I had 
a look online to see if I'd missed something, and came up with this forum. 

As a teacher, Print Screen ind inserted images for teaching aids is much much 
quicker when the crop tool is user-friendly. I could do it in another program, 
but there are plenty of people who wouldn't feel like learning to use a drawing 
program, no matter how simple. There have got to be a lot of people out there 
who would not be happy to lose this function in their word processor...

JohnPaulm, please see above blog post - "This feature is planned to make its 
way into StarOffice 9 / OpenOffice.org 3.0".

this feature is already part of OOo 3.0. See mentioned blog post above.
Therefore I close this issue

closing