[ale] OpenOffice - pixel-for-pixel image insert

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed May 5 10:57:55 EDT 2010


OK. Is it a display issue with the screen or does it print that way? The
screen rendering may be the culprit with anti-aliasing futzing things.

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:56 AM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> My bad. Left out "Picture". But it sounds like your OOo is nicely broken on
> image management.
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 9:50 AM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>
>>  That's not at all what I get.
>>
>> If I insert a picture and choose one that I know has sharp single black
>> pixels - let's say it's 647x555 - it goes in as 6.75" wide and 5.79" high.
>> If I right-click I don't get "Original Size" in the popup but I do get
>> "Picture..." and there is an "Original Size" button there.  If I click it,
>> though, nothing happens.  The picture object on the page has clearly been
>> blown up and interpolated; my sharp black pixel areas now have fuzzy areas.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 5/4/10 4:45 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>> Not directly on insert. But right-click and choose "Original Size" will
>> reset it.
>>
>> I have v. 3.1.1 and it didn't rescale the thumbnail I tested with. But a
>> huge image was scaled down to be close to the margin sides.
>>
>> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 4:21 PM, Jeff Hubbs <jhubbslist at att.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Seems no matter what I do, OpenOffice scales up and interpolates images
>>> to near margin width when you first insert them.  Anyone know how to
>>> keep that from happening?
>>>
>>> - Jeff
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