Importing pictures that are resized.

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#1

I'm creating some greeting cards using LO Draw templates I created a few
years ago. The problem is that Draw gets the dimensions wrong. I start
with a digital photo of about 3000 x 2000, resize it using GIMP to about
9" x 6", export as PNG or TIFF, and import into Draw. I the past, the
size was correct, but now it is shown as being over 40" wide! I'm
guessing that Draw assumes 72ppi, where I'm using 300 ppi. Could
someone confirm this behaviour and let me know what I need to do?

Thanks,
Dave

#2

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:

I'm creating some greeting cards using LO Draw templates I created a few
years ago. The problem is that Draw gets the dimensions wrong. I start
with a digital photo of about 3000 x 2000, resize it using GIMP to about
9" x 6"

How do you resize it?

, export as PNG or TIFF,

I don't know about Tiff, but in PNG you can enter the dpi to be used. You can use IrfanView to set the dpi. I don't know whether Gimp has such feature.

  and import into Draw. I the past, the

size was correct, but now it is shown as being over 40" wide! I'm
guessing that Draw assumes 72ppi, where I'm using 300 ppi. Could
someone confirm this behaviour and let me know what I need to do?

Click on the image. Then press F4 which opens the "Position & Size" dialog (or any other way to open that dialog). Check the option "Keep ratio" and enter the height or the width which you want for your image.

If you intend to use the image as background, then you can set its size in the background dialog.

Kind regards
Regina

#3

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:
> I'm creating some greeting cards using LO Draw templates I created a few
> years ago. The problem is that Draw gets the dimensions wrong. I start
> with a digital photo of about 3000 x 2000, resize it using GIMP to about
> 9" x 6"

How do you resize it?

Regina, I use GIMP Image Resize. Set the image to 300ppi, set the
dimensions to inches, set the size to about 9"W x 6"H. Once that is
don, I export.

, export as PNG or TIFF,

I don't know about Tiff, but in PNG you can enter the dpi to be used.
You can use IrfanView to set the dpi. I don't know whether Gimp has such
feature.

I have heard some good things about IrfanView, but I use Linux, and it
doesn't support Linux.

  and import into Draw. I the past, the
> size was correct, but now it is shown as being over 40" wide! I'm
> guessing that Draw assumes 72ppi, where I'm using 300 ppi. Could
> someone confirm this behaviour and let me know what I need to do?

Click on the image. Then press F4 which opens the "Position & Size"
dialog (or any other way to open that dialog). Check the option "Keep
ratio" and enter the height or the width which you want for your image.

This is what I do as well. The imported image size is over 40" wide!

If you intend to use the image as background, then you can set its size
in the background dialog.

This image is not a background.

Dave,

#4

dave boland wrote

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:
> I'm creating some greeting cards using LO Draw templates I created a
few
> years ago. The problem is that Draw gets the dimensions wrong. I
start
> with a digital photo of about 3000 x 2000, resize it using GIMP to
about
> 9" x 6"

How do you resize it?

Regina, I use GIMP Image Resize. Set the image to 300ppi, set the
dimensions to inches, set the size to about 9"W x 6"H. Once that is
don, I export.

No problem doing the same with Gimp 2.8.16 and LibreOffice 5.4.0.1 under
Windows XP. Can you create an image file which illustrates the problem and
share it ? Could be a bug in Draw under Linux only...

#5

Yes, I can get am image fairly soon, but how do I share it? I don't
think they like attachments to the mail forum. Oh, I have GIMP 2.8.14,
and LO version 5.0.2.2. The O.S. in Ubuntu 15.15. Let me see if I can
get an upgrade done to both.

Dave,

#6

dave boland wrote

Yes, I can get am image fairly soon, but how do I share it? I don't
think they like attachments to the mail forum.

You have two ways: share it in an image sharing site like imgur.com or
register in Nabble and add an attachment to your next reply here

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Importing-pictures-that-are-resized-td4168604.html

dave boland wrote

Oh, I have GIMP 2.8.14,
and LO version 5.0.2.2. The O.S. in Ubuntu 15.15. Let me see if I can
get an upgrade done to both.

Maybe that is enough to solve the problem and there is no need to upload the
image :wink:

#7

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Oh, I have GIMP 2.8.14,
and LO version 5.0.2.2. The O.S. in Ubuntu 15.15.

[Ubuntu 15.10? Ubuntu tags its distributions with year.month with releases in April and October. Thus 15.10 is the October, 2015 version. -- jl]

#8

The image link is http://imgur.com/JWdb7KN. I did upgrade LO and it is
now 5.0.3.0. However, it still thinks the image is 46" wide.

Dave

#9

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resized.

dave boland wrote

>> Hi Dave,

>>

>> dave boland schrieb:

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Oh, I have GIMP 2.8.14,

and LO version 5.0.2.2.  The O.S. in Ubuntu 15.15.

[Ubuntu 15.10? Ubuntu tags its distributions with year.month with
releases in April and October. Thus 15.10 is the October, 2015
version. -- jl]

#10

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:

I'm creating some greeting cards using LO Draw templates I created a few
years ago. The problem is that Draw gets the dimensions wrong. I start
with a digital photo of about 3000 x 2000, resize it using GIMP to about
9" x 6"

How do you resize it?

Regina, I use GIMP Image Resize. Set the image to 300ppi, set the
dimensions to inches, set the size to about 9"W x 6"H. Once that is
don, I export.

, export as PNG or TIFF,

I don't know about Tiff, but in PNG you can enter the dpi to be used.
You can use IrfanView to set the dpi. I don't know whether Gimp has such
feature.

I have tried it with one of my images. Gimp recalculates the pixels and sets the dpi correctly into the png-file. When I insert the image in Draw, then it has the correct size. I use Version: 5.2.0.0.alpha0+
Build ID: 81fa5340191baf8687f9c82f1f414f5afc86b529
Threads 4; Ver: Windows 6.1; Render: default;
TinderBox: Win-x86@62-merge-TDF, Branch:MASTER, Time: 2015-12-03_21:19:19
Locale: de-DE (de_DE)

I have heard some good things about IrfanView, but I use Linux, and it
doesn't support Linux.

Yes it is a nice tool for viewing and converting.

   and import into Draw. I the past, the

size was correct, but now it is shown as being over 40" wide! I'm
guessing that Draw assumes 72ppi, where I'm using 300 ppi. Could
someone confirm this behaviour and let me know what I need to do?

Click on the image. Then press F4 which opens the "Position & Size"
dialog (or any other way to open that dialog). Check the option "Keep
ratio" and enter the height or the width which you want for your image.

This is what I do as well. The imported image size is over 40" wide!

Not here. I get 9" width, same as set in Gimp. Do you use Insert > Image?

Kind regards
Regina

#11

Hi Dave,

dave boland schrieb:

dave boland wrote

Yes, I can get am image fairly soon, but how do I share it? I don't
think they like attachments to the mail forum.

You have two ways: share it in an image sharing site like imgur.com or
register in Nabble and add an attachment to your next reply here

http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Importing-pictures-that-are-resized-td4168604.html

dave boland wrote

Oh, I have GIMP 2.8.14,
and LO version 5.0.2.2. The O.S. in Ubuntu 15.15. Let me see if I can
get an upgrade done to both.

Maybe that is enough to solve the problem and there is no need to upload
the
image :wink:

The image link is http://imgur.com/JWdb7KN. I did upgrade LO and it is
now 5.0.3.0. However, it still thinks the image is 46" wide.

IrfanViwe tells me, that the picture, which you have uploaded, has 72dpi. I have opened it in Gimp and scaled it to use 300dpi and export it to jpg. For that image IrfanView tells me, that it has 300dpi. So perhaps something is wrong when you scale the image?

I have got Gimp 2.8 and use the scaling method "Sinc (Lanczos 3)" and 100% jpg quality.

Kind regards
Regina

#12

All,

OOPS! In desperation, I went searching through the options to see if
there was a resolution option in Draw. Didn't see one, but something
else caught my eye. A few weeks ago I changed the scale factor to try to
get more precision on the location of an image (ironically, in prep. for
this task). I had changed it to 1:10. Once changed back to 1:1, all
was fine. So I want to apologize for what is OE - operator error - and
hope you will forgive me for being such a dunce!

Dave,

#13

Nothing to apologize for. It happens to most of us at one time or
another. Thanks for the answer.

Philip