[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 34133] Add ability to reduce resolution (and so file size) of pictures

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34133

mail.pourri at laposte.net changed:

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--- Comment #2 from mail.pourri at laposte.net 2011-02-14 06:43:14 PST ---
Well I'm sorry, but I think you're not leading in the right direction. 
First, most people using Writer usually don't have the skills to open Gimp /
Photoshop and resize the picture, nor the knowledge about how pictures work.
And I'm not asking about creating a picture editor in LO.

Second, your main competitor has this options for ages (appeared in Word 95),
so you can't tell user to switch to your software if this feature is missing.
Usually, people try to send a document as an email attachement, and a 30MB file
is a no-no.

Third, what I'm asking here is for simplifying the process to the end-user.
Even for a power user who knows about pictures / resolution, having to fire up
Gimp / Photoshop, figure out the part to crop, resize, save to a temporary
folder, drag the worked picture to the document, and then realizing it's still
too large / small, is very long, painful, if not disappointing. 

Since you already have all the code required to resize the pictures and save
them, and since the whole point of a WYSIWYG editor is to perform action in
live, I'm asking if it's possible to add a menu action (not automatic, but
manual), where Writer would do:

for each picture in document
{
   if (picture.currentSize < picture.initialSize)
   {
       Picture tmpPic =
picture.resize(picture.currentSize).crop().withJPEGCompressionRatio(0.7);

       picture = tmpPic;
   }
}

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