[Solved] Enlarge image beyond page border

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Dachimotsu
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[Solved] Enlarge image beyond page border

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I'm trying to publish a graphic novel through KDP. I've got a template for the comic pages with the "live zone" and "trim lines" marked, and an Open Office document with all the margins perfectly-sized. However, these comic images are meant to be trimmed at the page edges in multiple ways, so they are by necessity wider than the document that needs to be sent to Amazon. All I need is to be able to have the full-size images in each page of Writer, and to adjust which side (left or right) is being cropped off (preferably without having to make cropped duplicates all in advance).
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Image that needs to fill each page, being cropped at the left or right sides
Image that needs to fill each page, being cropped at the left or right sides
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John_Ha
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Re: Trying to enlarge image to extend beyond the page border

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You cannot extend an image beyond the actual page size.

To extend an image beyond the page margins

1. Click the image to select it and bring up the handles.
2. Drag the green handles to extend the image beyond the margins.

If you hold Shift while you drag the aspect ratio is kept.

LibreOffice allows a background image to extend beyond the margins to the edge of the page.

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Re: Trying to enlarge image to extend beyond the page border

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In my opinion you need a publication editor software, but not an office text editor.

If you use the Writer anyway, then always optimize the images before you unsert them into your document: resize them, resample them, decrease the color depth to the optimal value, crop them, etc.

Use a third party image editor software (free or commercial one) for this task..
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Re: Trying to enlarge image to extend beyond the page border

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Kindle says
File guidelines

Bleed: If your book has images or elements that bleed to the edges of your pages, you must upload your manuscript as a PDF.

No Bleed: If your book does not contain bleed, you can upload your manuscript as a PDF, DOC, DOCX, RTF, HTML, or TXT file. KDP will automatically convert these file types to PDF prior to publishing/printing.
So, stretch your images to the edge of the page, create a PDF and upload the PDF. You will need to change your template to remove the excess area.

If you can borrow a copy of Adobe Acrobat it allows you to specify a design area larger than the final page size with crop marks specifying the actual page area. It probably opens .odt files. The free Scribus has a workaround to produce oversized bleed areas.
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