[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 34133] Add ability to automatically compress and resize images

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

--- Comment #65 from Luke <lukebenes at hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from comment #62)
> Advantages:
> 1) User have the ability to disable the compression at insert time (users
> arent prompted everytime time they press Ctrl+S or click the save button in
> the toolbar)

The trend in UIs are for people to drag and drop. Putting a pop-up dialog up
every time a user drops an image interrupts the work flow. People don't want to
have to think about compression settings at insert time and often don't know
their target. This is a disadvantage, because you will either have
unintentional data loss or an annoying pop-up to close every time you insert
things.

> 2) Smaller inserted images saves memory and also results in a more
> responsive UI (the UI becomes very sluggish when large images are present in
> a document - e.g bug 78529)

In a world of 4 TB hard drives and 32 GB of RAM this "advantage" rings hallow.
As the developers point out, the problem in Bug 78529 is with out image
caching. Once that's fixed, this won't be an issue. I'd rather deal with any
performance issues than produce low quality output.

Every application that I have ever used that allows for compressed images puts
destructive edits as an explicit, manual operation or at save time.  If these
are the only advantages you can think up, than the disadvantages far out-weight
the advantages. 

One more question:

Heiko Tietze said the default compression will be 90%.

So what if we insert already highly compressed images? Will this compress them
again? With lossy compression, this will do nothing but result in a lower
quality image. This is just another reason why this idea needs to be thought
thought more carefully.

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