Hi Armin,
You got the idea. I suggested a couple options. but wasn't emotionally
involved with any of them. I like the one you suggested it would work
for me.
On Nov 13, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Armin Le Grand wrote:
Hi Douglas,
Douglas St.Clair schrieb:
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.
As always. The common "Do what I want" from a user in most cases is
not the "Do what everyone wants"...
I would add an option to the selected object containing the image.
The user who has to decide if he further wants to crop or not (and
the only one who can decide) did modify the object himself, so -
when an image is cropped - let there be an extra menu entry or a new
button near the crop button which is something like 'finish cropping'.
When i think about it, this could all be done with the one existing,
interactive crop initiating button. When it would work like an on/
off switch:
- on: start cropping the current image, delete nothing
- off: end-crop image, throw away invisible data
The nice thing is that You can only select 'off' anyways when You
did crop at all...
--
St. Doug, Tigger and Puppy in our memory.
Tir na nOg
Wilton, NH USA
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