Well, admittedly I don't know what kind of progam "xv" is, so I don't know what you're comparing Inkscape to. The problem with the original message in this topic, is that we never knew exactly what kind of image needed to be cropped, or exactly what was meant by "cropping". I as...

I have a photo that I am working with that has a simple white background. How do I crop out this white background so I'll just be left with the image? Seems like that would be something simple, but I can't figure it out. Especially since it's the first time using this software. Thanks. I have just ...

Every format I've tried to saved the cropped image in always saves everything including the part I want deleted.

Why is it so difficult to crop anything in inkscape as compared to cropping in xv?