Christopher J Demattio wrote: > > I am trying to use images saved in PNG format with DITAC. The images > are created and saved in Visio, which allows me to control various > parameters (such as dpi, image size, etc) on saving. When I save an > image at native size at 300 dpi resolution, it shows up in the rendered > output Word document at a very large size. > > Can you please tell me what parameters in the PNG are used by DITAC to > determine how large to render the output? Any other tips you can > provide regarding working with images would be appreciated. >
> P.S. I am using DITAC 1.1, in command line mode, together with XMLMind XSL > XFC 4.3.1. Your question is in fact about XMLmind XSL-FO Converter. XMLmind XSL-FO Converter currently completely ignores the *absolute* image size (e.g. 3inx4in) information specified by software such as Visio. (But we may change this in a future version of XMLmind XSL-FO Converter in order to be more compatible with XEP and FOP.) Rationale: Most raster images are created by screen capture software and in such case, this absolute image size is almost always incorrect. XMLmind XSL-FO Converter uses just the *pixel* size of the raster image (e.g. 1024x748). In you case (300dpi), this indeed creates very large images. We recommend to explicitly specify the desired size for the image using the with attribute of the image element (no need to specify the height attribute). Example: width="10.5cm". See http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/langspec/langref/image.html
