On Mon, Dec 7, 2015, at 11:35 AM, Regina Henschel 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. > > , 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, -- dave boland dbola...@fastmail.fm -- http://www.fastmail.com - IMAP accessible web-mail -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
