Hello Everyone First of all, I do understand the danger of using development builds to do real work. Second of all, the pictures that I am trying to make a presentation out of are not lost. The only thing that is lost is a fair amount of wasted time..
Anyway, has anyone else seen this scenario: I SEEM to be able to make a presentation in the DEV300m55 build of SImpress. But if I do anything like change the transition time between slides, or (which I just had happen) delete extra slides, SImpress seems to change my full size (appropriately reduced to fit on the size of the page that I have chosen) photos down to an almost thumbnail size, and then resize THAT smaller size to the full size of the page. The result is what you would expect if you took an image that started out only 2 inches wide and then resized it to fit on a presentation made with the "Screen" size page. Translation: it looks very blurry and almost pixelated. SImpress does all of this silently. In one case that I actually checked, my originally 7.9MB presentation changed down to a file size of 2.5MB. Which is of course what one would expect if somehow OO.org decided to radically reduce the size of my photos. Also, For a comparison, check out slides 30 and 31 in the following presentation: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-005.odp You will also notice in that presentation that Slides 1-30 exhibit the resized behavior that I mention, and 31- do not. Here you will notice that all the pictures up to and including EXACTLY slide 30 are gone. The the ones from slide 31 and on look perfect: http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-006.odp Admittedly it is really interesting that the pictures that dissappeared after I did "File | Save As" are all of the ones that looked blurry in the previous version. One thing that comes to mind is that I used a VERY RECENT build of GraphicsMagick to resize all 110 photos. It JUST occured to me that I will retry all of this with the GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick that ships with Fedora 11 (Linux). I will get back to you with the results... Steven P. Ulrick --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
