I can see a logic for retaining the whole image after cropping in that
it allows the author to re-crop the image at any time. Clearly the
downside is the images are larger than the original poster wanted. It
would seem that in order to satisfy the original poster there would
need to be a way to tell the application no further changes to the
images are desired. Now this could be done automatically when the
document is saved. (I don't like this approach). There could be a
'save and minimize images' option added. There could be a separate
command to minimize image(s) to the size at which they are currently
defined. Should this do all images, selected images, only one selected
image?
I mention this only to point out that while the request for the
original poster sounds pretty straight forward it really is pretty
complex.
On Nov 12, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Armin Le Grand wrote:
Hi Clarke,
Clarke Rice schrieb:
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.
Good idea. For impress, have You tried the presentation optimizer (a
downloadable plugin)?
Please (if not done yet) register at OOo and file an enhancement
issue for this. Maybe a menu entry or button can be added for
cropped images to apply the crop and get back to a non-cropped,
reduced image.
Clarke
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