Michele Zarri wrote:
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I am not sure it will help me. Let me be a bit more explicit with an example.
I want to draw some lines and text boxes on a screenshot from googleEarth and
I want to upload a jpeg of less than 200k and of a given size on a web
forum. This is what I do 1. capture the screenshot, remove the interface bits
and paste the resulting image into a layer of Draw. 2. on a different layer
of Draw I create my lines, callouts, etc... 3. copy all and paste into GIMP
to perform the corrections (size and quality) and generate the final jpeg
file.
I can see why you might use Draw for this but, given your problems, maybe other
tools would be more useful? Would I be correct in thinking that you immediately
convert the source image into a lossless file format (png) and work in this
format until the final export?
Point 3 is where I experience the problem since the resulting picture is as I
said 20% or so wider than the original screenshot. As good as GIMP is in
rescaling still the quality is badly deteriorated and I really cannot
understand why the size is modified during the copy & paste process.
Neither can I. Obviously the GIMP is not adding pixels, so Draw must be
re-sampling during the export, which is very odd behaviour. Is the image visibly
deteriorating from screen in Draw to the output of the exported file?
BTW... I was somewhat familiar with the picture you sent me since I created
it last year for the Impress guide :-)
I thought you might be! I'm reviewing the Impress Guide presently and re-working
all the screenshots. :-)
Peter HB
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