Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Provide means for truly scaling an image (in particular, scale text size, borders, line thickness, line marker sizes and so on) | ||
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Product: | Draw | Reporter: | haui <haui> |
Component: | editing | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> |
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |
Severity: | Trivial | ||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues |
Version: | 680m104 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- |
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||
Issue Depends on: | 11910, 15835 | ||
Issue Blocks: |
Description
haui
2005-05-30 10:26:40 UTC
Reassigned. *** Issue 50030 has been confirmed by votes. *** I would like to add my voice to this feature request. My impression is that many people involved don't really understand the issue, or why this feature would be useful. Here is a use case which I encounter frequently in my own work and I'm sure many other people do as well: * Create diagrams, flow charts or other images using OpenOffice.org Draw * Import the resulting images in a Writer document * Adjust the scale in order to fit the images in the document correctly * Preferably, have the images either be linked to the originals, or have them be editable inside the Writer document The expectation in the third step is that the image will be scaled in its entirety (including text sizes, line widths, etc.), just like a bitmap would be, but keeping the advantages of vector graphics (smooth scaling). Otherwise, the images will be distorted, with text overflowing its boundaries and contents being obscured by lines which are too thick, etc. Currently there is no way to do this with OpenOffice.org. There are many different ways of getting a drawing from Draw into Writer and they all have problems: * Importing the drawing as an OLE object: incorrect scaling (and also unnecessary whitespace around the drawing) * Pasting the drawing as a GDI metafile: not linked to original drawing anymore, and not editable * Importing the drawing as a bitmap: pixelation, no smooth scaling, not linked to original and not editable Given that OOo Draw is a drawing application, I agree that the lack of a true scaling operation is a real problem. I've designed a book cover in Draw, and there is no way to scale it to fit different print page sizes without also having to enter each text box in the group and change the font sizes individually. I suspect the reason Issue 15835 was submitted as a Defect rather than an Enhancement request is that the lack of a true scaling function is severe enough to be a defect. MS Word's drawing editor has the same defect, and I've always found it annoying when attempting to resize drawings. Scaling grouped objects containing text boxes should scale the text contained in those boxes as well. That fact that it doesn't smells like a bug to me. |