Clarke Rice wrote:
Hi Sigrid
I don't understand, why you are complaining. Have you tried the new
version of OOo? The cropping tool for images has - in my opinion -
improved a lot. I don't know how Word does the cropping (I haven't used
Word for some time now), but I think that OOo does it now well enough
that you don't need any extra program like GIMP to crop the pictures you
want to insert. Try it out.
What you say is true. However in OOo 3, if I insert a large image and resize it, Writer still
saves a huge image. It would be useful if Writer allowed me to save the final document with
images at the resolution they are actually used with, or to save without cropped portions of
images still being retained in the saved file.
So it would be the right time to file a request for enhancement in
Issuezilla at qa.openoffice.org so that the developers get to know this.
Discussing such wishes without submitting an issue does not lead anywhere.
The Impress module already has a Presentation Minimizer extension
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/PresentationMinimizer
that resizes embedded images, among other options.
It should be not too complicated to get a Writer Minimizer extension
that really crops embedded images to the cropped size and scales them
down to a smaller file size.
Uwe
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