On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Steven P. Ulrick <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hello Everyone > First of all, I do understand the danger of using development builds to do > real > work. Second of all, the pictures that I am trying to make a presentation > out > of are not lost. The only thing that is lost is a fair amount of wasted > time.. Please DO NOT use development version in place of stable version. Dev version are only for testing. > > > Anyway, has anyone else seen this scenario: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=104146 > > I SEEM to be able to make a presentation in the DEV300m55 build of > SImpress. > But if I do anything like change the transition time between slides, or > (which I > just had happen) delete extra slides, SImpress seems to change my full size > (appropriately reduced to fit on the size of the page that I have chosen) > photos > down to an almost thumbnail size, and then resize THAT smaller size to the > full > size of the page. The result is what you would expect if you took an image > that > started out only 2 inches wide and then resized it to fit on a presentation > made > with the "Screen" size page. Translation: it looks very blurry and almost > pixelated. SImpress does all of this silently. In one case that I > actually > checked, my originally 7.9MB presentation changed down to a file size of > 2.5MB. > Which is of course what one would expect if somehow OO.org decided to > radically > reduce the size of my photos. Also, > > For a comparison, check out slides 30 and 31 in the following presentation: > http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-005.odp<http://www.afolkey2.net/%7Esteve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-005.odp> > You will also notice in that presentation that Slides 1-30 exhibit the > resized > behavior that I mention, and 31- do not. > > Here you will notice that all the pictures up to and including EXACTLY > slide 30 > are gone. The the ones from slide 31 and on look perfect: > http://www.afolkey2.net/~steve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-006.odp<http://www.afolkey2.net/%7Esteve/OO/20090825-BibleSchool-3.2.0-006.odp> > Admittedly it is really interesting that the pictures that dissappeared > after I > did "File | Save As" are all of the ones that looked blurry in the previous > version. > > One thing that comes to mind is that I used a VERY RECENT build of > GraphicsMagick to resize all 110 photos. It JUST occured to me that I will > retry all of this with the GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick that ships with > Fedora > 11 (Linux). I will get back to you with the results... > > Steven P. Ulrick > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
