Marko - Thanks for your reply. On my computers, the window I get when I press "d" is the same centered, partial window I was complaining about. Michael's tip on pressing Shift while opening that window (the one you get when pressing "d" while clicking the double headed arrow of that partial window) brings up a new screen which is the full size of the computer screen.
This morning, they've apparently restored the ability to scale inserted images, even in the "d" window. It was always possible to do this in the past, but yesterday it was impossible. Now, it's a little more difficult, but it can be done in the smaller centralized compose window as well as the full-screen one. In case you're interested, here's how to scale images: The image used to open up in the compose window at about half the size of the compose window. Now it opens at the full size of the compose window, but scaling it down works the same as it did in the past. Clicking on the lower right corner of the image brings up boundary markings (small squares on corners and in the centers of the sides, top, and bottom of the image). After the boundary markings show, clicking on the *lower right corner *allows me to scale the image down and/or to change its aspect ratio, by pushing the boundary marker up and to the right (to decrease size of the image). With this "new" setup, I have to be careful to avoid a new sliding "elevator bar" at the right of the image - but with a little care, it works just fine. The older way of opening the image at half the size of the compose window worked a little more easily - but this new way works fine. I'm happy again. Bill On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 7:49 AM, Marko Vukovic <marko.vuko...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi Bill > > Press 'd' and you'll get a compose window in a tab of it's own. > > I don't recall ever having an option to resize images. > > > On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 11:17 PM, billhansen <billhansen2...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> I guess I was late in getting the "new compose" window everyone's been >> complaining about. Today I noticed that I can no longer compose an email in >> full screen mode. The choices are the little 1/4 or 1/5 screen at lower >> right, or (after choosing to maximize the compose screen) there's a >> centered compose window which is about 1/2 to 2/3 of the size of the former >> compose window. What was wrong with allowing us to use the larger compose >> window?? >> >> Another new "feature" which is very annoying is that I can no longer >> resize images which I insert into an email, as I was able to do just >> yesterday. I guess we get just one size of inserted image, and that's all. >> Which genius decided that this is any sort of improvement? >> >> Sorry to be grumpy. I know we're all stuck with this, and the only >> option is to leave Gmail. I just hate to see an excellent email client >> deteriorate for no good reason - or for no reason at all. >> >> Bill Hansen >> Ithaca NY >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Gmail-Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > > > -- > Marko > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
