Hi :) It might be good to post this as a bug-report to see what comments the devs make, or use their mailing list or irc or whatever.
I'm not having the same issue at all and can't replicate the problem at all. On my machines jpgs stay as jpgs and pngs as pngs. I just drag and drop my images in. Not sure if that makes a difference. Regards from Tom :) On 1 March 2014 13:57, Ra <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, it's not that either. I can't make sense of this either. > Just as an example, one of the original JPEGs is 568x426 and 75kB in size, > as a PNG it has the same dimensions but is 374kB in size. > > > > > > On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Mark Bourne < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> OK. In that case it doesn't look like what I thought. The only other thing >> I can think is that perhaps some of those JPEGs do come out smaller when >> saved as PNG and LO is doing that to reduce the file size. But that seems >> unlikely for photos, as you originally said. Maybe someone else here has >> some ideas... >> >> Mark. >> >> >> >> Ra wrote: >> >>> I never insert images as pictures. The JPEG images are only ever used as >>> backgrounds for frames. I also never open the JPEGs in any picture editing >>> application and copypaste from there, the images are only ever used as >>> files from disk. >>> >>> What I'm doing is precisely this: >>> >>> File > Insert > Frame... > OK >>> >>> >>> Then >>> >>> [right click on the frame created] > Frame... > Background > As: Graphic > >>> Browse... > [select the JPEG file from disk] > Type: Area > OK >>> >>> >>> And then repeat, many times, always selecting a different JPEG for the >>> background. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Mark Bourne < >>> [email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Sure, but how did you then get those images into LibreOffice? >>>> >>>> If you use Insert > Picture > From file, LO knows that the file is a JPEG >>>> and probably even copies the file as-is into the ODF file. >>>> >>>> If you open the JPEG file in another application (such as an image >>>> editor), then copy from there and paste into LO, in this case LO will >>>> only >>>> have the bitmap data copied from the image editor. It will not know about >>>> the original image file nor what type it was, and probably uses its >>>> default >>>> format, i.e. PNG, to save that image data within the ODF file. >>>> >>>> My suspicion is that, although you saved all the source images as JPEGs, >>>> those which appear as JPEG in the ODF file were inserted by Insert > >>>> Picture > From file, while those which appear as PNG in the ODF file were >>>> opened in another application and copied and pasted into LO Writer. >>>> >>>> Mark. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> Ra wrote: >>>> >>>> Good guess but sadly no. All the images are first stored as JPEGs. >>>>> That's >>>>> how I know they in fact *are* JPEGs. ;-) >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Ra wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello, >>>>> >>>>> I have noticed some unexpected (and possibly inconsistent) behavior of >>>>> documents producet with LO Writer. Here's my scenario: I have several >>>>> frames in the document and each of them has a JPEG photo as the >>>>> background. >>>>> Each frame has a different image as a background. There are no other >>>>> graphics in the document, just some text. The resulting document ends up >>>>> being considerably larger than the sum of all the images and all the >>>>> text >>>>> content put together. >>>>> >>>>> Knowing that ODFs are really just ZIP archives, I decided to dig a >>>>> little >>>>> deeper. Having opened an ODF file with an archiver I noticed most (but >>>>> not >>>>> all, surprisingly!) of my JPEGs got converted to PNGs before getting >>>>> stored. I don't know much about this but up until now I believed LO >>>>> stores >>>>> all external images as direct file copies, or at the very least in the >>>>> original format, so this striked me as odd. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Just a guess, but if you copy and paste an image from another file, LO >>>>> won't know what format it was in originally (all it has is bitmap data >>>>> pasted from the clipboard), so will probably use PNG since it is a >>>>> lossless >>>>> format. Maybe those in JPEG format were inserted by Insert > Picture > >>>>> From >>>>> file (or similar), while those in PNG format were opened in another >>>>> application, copied from there, and then pasted into LO? >>>>> >>>>> I've been told the ODF specification recommends using PNGs for >>>>> bitmaps >>>>> and >>>>> SVG for vector graphics. This makes sense generally but is also quite >>>>> inefficient for photos as PNG photos tend to be much larger than JPEGs. >>>>> It >>>>> is also weird that only some of my images got converted. >>>>> >>>>> Anybody know and can explain the logic behind this? My document >>>>> currently >>>>> contains about 100 such images, the JPEGs are all together about ~15MB >>>>> in >>>>> size, the rest of the document is mostly plain text with some >>>>> formatting, >>>>> and yet my document ends up at about ~47MB. I would like to optimize and >>>>> reduce this if possible. >>>>> >>>>> In case it matters, the document was produced over several weeks in LO >>>>> 4.x >>>>> or newer on Windows (XP/x86 and 7/x64) and Linux (x86). >>>>> >>>>> Thank you. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >>>>> Problems? >>>>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >>>>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ >>>>> Netiquette >>>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>>> deleted >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >>>> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- >>>> unsubscribe/ >>>> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >>>> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >>>> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >>>> deleted >>>> >>>> >>> >> -- >> To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] >> Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- >> unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
