The cropping is weighted at the center of the Geometry.

[thoughtbot]

The cropping is weighted at the center of the Geometry.

[superp]

Is very important bug

[dewski]

I had this problem as well, here is my Paperclip options hash:

{
  :styles => {
    :large => ['500x500>', :png],
    :medium => ['350x350>', :png],
    :small => ['', :png],
    :thumb => ['', :png]
  },
  :processors => lambda { |asset| asset.video? ? [:video_thumbnail] : [:thumbnail] },
  :convert_options => {
    :small => '-resize "215x" +repage -crop "215x160+0+0" -gravity North',
    :thumb => '-resize "50x" +repage -crop "50x50+0+0" -gravity North'
  },
  :default_style => :thumb,
  :default_url => '/images/converting/:style.gif',
  :storage => :s3,
  :bucket => 'ce-stage',
  :s3_credentials => File.expand_path('config/s3.yml', Rails.root),
  :s3_headers => {
    'Expires' => 5.years.from_now
  },
  :path => "revisions/:id_partition/:style.:content_type_extension",
  :url => "/revisions/:id_partition/:style.:content_type_extension"
}

[xxx]

dewski, you are my hero of today.

+1 on this problem.

edit: I ended up going with -resize "80x80^" +repage -gravity north -crop "80x80+0+0" to force a square regardless of original aspect ratio.

[akaspick]

This is what you need to make it work...

:styles => { :grid => "" },
    :convert_options => {
      :grid => '-resize "200x" -gravity Center -crop "200x125+0+0"'
    }

As dewski shows, you need to remove your size for the main style otherwise paperclip resizes your image before the custom options are run causing :convert_options to be evaluated against a lower resolution version of your image. Also the gravity option needs to be set before the crop option.

[alexgodin]

This issue seems to have been resolved by @dewski.