On Friday, August 15, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Andrew wrote:
[...] Say I create a cartoon of a man inphotoshop and I paste him into Revolution. Then my little man becomes
an "image" in Revolution language. However, when I paste him in, the
rect of the image is the size of the entire card! How can I get the
rect of my little man to be exactly the size of him?
I was about to suggest pasting into a locked (size and position) image object, because
I thought this would resize the picture to the image size like it does in SuperCard, but a
quick experiment shows that it doesn't. Must Andrew therefore do the resizing either
outside RunRev or inside via script?
a general rule: images look best 1:1...
Means they look best (at least in RR) when they are NOT resized in any way!
In Andrews case i am almost sure that the resolution is something else but not 72 dpi.
Only image-editors and layout-applications "know" what image resolution other than
72 dpi really means...
All other apps, including RR, will always display images at this reolution.
They tend to "think" in pixel...
Means if you saved an image in Photoshop with 144 dpi it will appear double-sized in RR.
So you will have to set the correct resolution (72 dpi, in case you forgot) before importing/using
this image in RR to get the best results possible...
I am interested in a RunRev internal solution myself - can anyone suggest the
most efficient one? I know there have been previous discussions about creating
thumbnails, but I couldn't find an actual recipe for importing an arbitrarily-sized
picture into a fixed-size image (and reducing the resolution on the way).
This way you are going to have the original sized image only displayed a little smaller,
means the filesize (the number of bytes occupied in your stack) is the same!
This is the way i do this:
import an image, resize it as desired and THEN import a snapshot of the area of the scaled image.
Will end in a smaller (size and bytes) image...
... HTH
Graham
Hope that helps...
Klaus Major [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.major-k.de
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