[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 138765] set the displayed size of an image inserted in Writer by changing its DPI

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=138765

skierpage <info at skierpage.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|you should be able to set   |set the displayed size of
                   |the size an image in Writer |an image inserted in Writer
                   |by changing its DPI         |by changing its DPI
         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |---
             Blocks|                            |103152, 116082
             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #4 from skierpage <info at skierpage.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #2)
First, thanks so much for responding! ❤ 

> Bug 34133 - Add option (+settings?) to compress and resize images:
> automatically either on insertion of an image or on save, and via a separate
> menu entry for all images
No, I don't want to compress my image, it's perfect: I just, as my description
says, want to set the displayed size of the image by DPI. (The ambiguity of
visual size vs. file size is confusing.)

> Bug 132656 - Show proper actual dimensions in Compress Image dialog
I don't want to compress.

> Bug 132658 - ENHANCEMENT: Image without resolution set should get a default
> fallback resolution (not based on a screen resolution)
Close, but I want to _control_ the DPI in Writer. After understanding this
problem with Writer I started setting the resolution of my images in GIMP, and
Writer uses it (hooray!), but my request here is regardless of the resolution
in the image file I want to set the displayed size of the image in Writer by
DPI.

> Making it a duplicate of Bug 115464 - UI of export to PNG and JPG misleading
> for resolution since this one has a mockup (but focus on export). ...
The UI for Image > Crop > Scale would be similar to attachment 142611 , but
instead of _file sizing_ by dimension, resolution, or pixels, the controls are
_scaling displayed size_ by percentage, image dimensions, or resolution in
DPI/Dots per Length. I made my own mockup, attached (disclaimer, I have no idea
how display size interacts with Crop).

> ... If this is
> totally wrong please check the META bug - or reopen.

Respectfully, I'm reopening as a separate bug. I added this bug as a dependency
of Writer-Images and Images-DPI, and commented in bug 115464 that Writer's
image properties > Crop > Scale needs a similar three-way control.

Looking at some of the bug reports, people seem unhappy with Writer's guess as
to how big to make an inserted image, so maybe this UI to scale/size by
percentage, dimensions, or DPI should be to be part of the Insert > Image
dialog, or an immediate second step, instead of making people find Format >
Image > Properties or right-click Properties > Crop.


Thanks for all your efforts, everyone.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103152
[Bug 103152] [META] Writer image bugs and enhancements
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116082
[Bug 116082] [META] Image issues related to image DPI
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