[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 #72 from Joey Reid <joeyisdamanya at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Tomaz Vajngerl from comment #69)
> Come on.. get real. You know full well that the amount of users who will
> send documents to professional printers that use LO is very very low. Such
> people will turn this off...

This at the core of problem here. I am looking at my company’s sharepoint
marketing folder now and the majorities of files are .docx and .pptx files. Yes
there are plenty of Adobe formats in here to, but the sales and marketing
material that’s meant to be shared in our company is mostly in MSO formats. 

Many of are here because we are professional users that care about the quality
of our work. So we create large, high quality documents and then compress them
when it’s time to share. This is a feature MSO has had for as long as I can
remember and what users here want and in the linked bug reports.

However, it seems that Yousuf and Tomaz do not envision us as the target
audience, and at the same time you want to workaround another bug in
LibreOffice's graphics system by silently resizing large images(at least by
drag and drop which is how most users insert images). 


Instead of resolving this issue with a manual option, you want to expand the
scope to something automatically done in the background. If LibreOffice's
target audience are grandmothers making cookie recipes to share with their
church, silently applying lossy compression and resizing images makes sense. If
our target are professionals, you should never apply lossy compression and
destructive edits unless the user requests it.

Finally, I do not think Word works the way Yousuf and Tomaz thin it works. 

I unchecked "do not compress images". Restarted Word. Added a 10MB jepg image.
Saved and closed. The resulting file was 10MB+100k. I shrunk the image on
screen. Saved and closed. The resulting file was still 10MB+100k. I manually
ran the compress wizard. The resulting file was 17k after saving. This tells me
Word actively avoids destructive edits unless the user specifies it. This is
the correct behavior for business software.


10 MB test file for you to try yourself:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/ff/Pizigani_1367_Chart_10MB.jpg

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