https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151033
Bug ID: 151033
Summary: Automatically size the width (and height) of pasted
images to fit the page in Writer (instead of exceeding
the boundaries with no easy way to size it down)
Product: LibreOffice
Version: Inherited From OOo
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
Very often I archive interesting articles from the web by pasting their
contents into LibreOffice Writer, as the browser's PDF printer rarely yields
good-looking and compact results.
However, there is one major productivity pain point that has been bugging me
for years: when there are large/high-resolution images among the contents being
pasted, Writer typically pastes it in a way that the images exceed the size of
the page, and as a result you then have to fight with the UI to size it down
because the resizing handles on the right and bottom are outside the page
boundaries (and thus not visible / not interactive), so you have to grab the
top-left resizing handle, size a little (because if you resize it "too
fast/significantly" from the top-left then Writer messes up the position of the
image and throws it onto another page). The process is very tedious and
error-prone.
Steps to Reproduce:
As an example to try for yourself, go to
https://fixthephoto.com/male-poses.html and ctrl+F "country style" to get to
photo no. 29, select the title text above the photo until the paragraph below
the photo (including the photo) and copy+paste it into Writer.
Attached is a video demonstrating the issue for posterity.
Actual Results:
The image vastly exceeds the page width and height, making it difficult to see
and to resize.
Note that it seems "less terrible than in really is" in the video, because
Writer is half-tiled (and thus very tall) on my screen; when Writer is
maximized on a landscape/wide screen, it is *infernal* to try to resize those
images.
Expected Results:
Writer should auto-size paste images to fit the page's width and height (while
respecting the image's aspect ratio, of course). Images that exceed the page's
dimensions just don't make sense at all.
Making me incrementally resize images to fit on the page is meaningless extra
work inflicted on the user, and the lack of resizing handles would also confuse
non-technical users I mentor. The software/computer should be smart enough to
figure out reasonable defaults.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
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