Images copied to Libre Office Writer from Shutter look so pixelated

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#1

I have installed UbuntuStudio 14.04 i386 on my Dell Inspiron 1750, I use
Shutter 0-93.1 to make tutos with, when I paste it to Libre Office
Writer, see this picture:

Picture LibreOffice 4.4.5.2 http://i.imgur.com/wt0XFSf.png

You see that image have very bad quality. When I do the same in WPS:

Picture WPS Office 9.1.0.4961 http://i.imgur.com/NTJbkv6.png

See that the quality is best. Do you can help to no use WPS because this

Also I search and find this:
http://superuser.com/questions/880756/why-do-images-copied-to-libre-office-writer-look-so-pixelated

in this place said that with the use of SVG files solve this, but the
problem is that Shutter not working with SVG files

#2

Answered you on the SE superuser link. But, the issue is documented as in
fdo#86675

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675

Stuart

#3

Hi :slight_smile:
I assume that both of the images of Virtualbox use the same format? Both
Jpgs?

The difference in quality is very clear! While the title-bar, menu-bar and
icon-bars look very much the same in both examples the image in the Writer
document looks like it's been "indexed" or warped in some other way.

I have not noticed this happening with my images in Writer or Draw and i
have no idea why it would be happening to you. I'm tempted to try to open
some of my old documents to have a look but they are a bit out of reach at
the moment. :frowning:

I hope someone else is able to give a good answer on how to solve this.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#4

Strange. I'm not seeing a difference in quality between the two images. :frowning:

From your description I expected the difference to be striking.

[[Regarding WPS, I have experienced trouble between it and LibreOffice. With both installed on XP I was not given the ability to open a csv file "with ..." LibreOffice. LO was totally hidden as a possible program to be used to process csv files. Uninstalling WPS restored the ability to use LO.]]

#5

Hi :slight_smile:
If you look at the fonts in the menus in the two images;
http://i.imgur.com/wt0XFSf.png
http://i.imgur.com/NTJbkv6.png

Then you might notice that in one the fonts are nicely smoothed out and
regular width but in the other they are more like they are done with a
fountain pen (variable width) with a bit of shadowy ghost and blotchiness.
One would be very disappointing in a printed brochure.

I suspect that most people wont experience the problem in their version of
LibreOffice or that even if they do have the problem it's not a big issue
for them. Mostly it seems that people have gotten so familiar with the
poor quality of printed documents created by Word that they don't even
notice a huge range of general nastiness, or are quite happy to "put up
with it" these days.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#6

Known issue as in tdf#88675
<https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675> and here is
the answer I provided on the SE SuperUser question
<http://superuser.com/questions/880756/why-do-images-copied-to-libre-office-writer-look-so-pixelated>
:

"This is a known issue in LibreOffice (tdf#86675) where PNG images being
imported/inserted and scaled are using "Nearest neighbor" in rendering the
document canvas, rather than more common Bilinear, or BiCubic (Catmull-Rom)
pixel interpretation on scaling. Also, for now in LibreOffice, believe PNGs
with Alpha channel are always "scaled" using nearest neighbor.

Especially an issue on Linux builds, less so on Windows builds.

So, if you can prepare your PNG to the exact size needed, as well as prepare
or convert to a non-Alpha channel PNG (using ImageMagick's "convert
input.png -background white -alpha remove output.png" or similar utility),
you should be able to have acceptable image insertion and rendering in a
LibreOffice document.

See: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=86675 "