https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40469
--- Comment #14 from [email protected] <[email protected]> --- CONFIRMED: The inability to preserve inserted images' aspect ratio in frame styles in LibreOffice Writer 4.3.5.2 on Windows 7 x64. The "Keep ratio" checkbox is grayed-out. This is actually a *major* problem for users who must insert a large number of disparately dimensioned images into a document and set them at either a uniform width or uniform height, without stretching or squishing them. The time required to format (or re-format) hundreds of inserted images individually is hundreds of time higher than the time required to modify a single style. A potential distant-second-best workaround might be to write a macro to apply initial or subsequently modified frame properties to inserted images individually. While still very tedious and time-consuming, this would cut down on the time required by a factor of, say, 10 to 20, and would reduce the potential for isolated typing mistakes even more. Unfortunately for ordinary (non-coder) users, setting frame properties doesn't seem to be amenable to recording: when I tried it, non-default settings in only one tab were recorded -- and I'm not sure all of *them* were -- and after a second or third attempt, the record macro feature stopped working. (Clicking the "Stop recording" button closed the box without offering the user a chance to name the macro.) I haven't searched for this bug yet or fully explored it myself, but I mention it as it's relevant here. Ideally, in the Frame Style dialog box's Type tab, the user should be able to specify *either* width *or* height, click the "Keep ratio" checkbox, and have the unspecified dimension left blank and free to be calculated on the fly for each inserted image the frame style is applied to. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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