Why is cropping tool grayed out?

I use the latest Aperture 3.3.2. Got a picture ready to crop but cropping tool is grayed out? Anyone know why? The image is online and lets me print.
Thanks
Jerry

The only way I can make the crop tool greyed out is by taking the original image flles offline or by not selecting any image at all:
Are you sure, that you had the image selected and it is online, when you tried to crop? "Print" is not greyed out for offline originals, but it will not actually let you print
But if your image is online, and you have selected it, and you still cannot crop, your User preferences may be corrupted; then try to quit Aperture, log off and on again (to ensure Aperture really quits), and move the User Preferences (~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.Aperture.plist) from the user library to the Desktop - see the Aperture 3: Troubleshooting Basics on how to do this.
If this does not help, try the other trouble shooting measure from this document, unless you tried that already.
Regards
Léonie

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