Does the '#' modifier for cropping images in Paperclip work only for square images?

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Published on 2014-08-23T04:14:56Z Indexed on 2014/08/23 4:20 UTC
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It is very well documented that you can create square thumbnails with center cropping with Paperclip (4) and Rails (4).

I would like to have an image of very specific dimensions (e.g. 200x100) and if input an image of let's say 800x200 it is first resized to 400x100 and then the width (400) is cropped down to 200 pixel from the center (i.e. 100px cut from the right and 100 px cut from the left).

I tried with 200x100# and it does not appear to work (i.e. the '#' has no effect).

I have found that I could adapt other solutions such as this, but I was wondering if '#' is supposed to work only for cropping to square images, or is a Paperclip bug or I am doing something wrong...

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