Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4748
antialiasing vs anti-antialiasing (printing of inserted graphics)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:32:24 UTC
Hi! I insert a GIF from a file. The image is shown antialiased. I am a bit confused because the image is printed with _no_ antialiasing. I think the best would be an option in the image properties, just a simple checkbox which defines to display (and print) the image with or without antialising. Best regards, Csongor HALMAI
Reassigned to Bettina.
I don't think it's a good idea to antialias imported pictures. If you want to import a screenshot for example, you don't want it to be antialiased (looks fuzzy). Same holds true with any crisp pictures with hard edges (bitmap diagrams, charts, maps etc.) - just the kind of pictures for which people uses gif format. I understand that antialiasing would seem to be desirable feature when printing photographs as it seems to add more resolution to the image. It does no - it only makes it smoother. Including antialiasing would promote bad habits and incomprehension towards image size and resolution. Correct way is to have sufficiently big (in terms of resolution) original picture or to use it in so small size that no aliasing is perceptible in the print. None of the good lay-out or drawing programs (InDesign, QuarkXPress, Freehand, Illustrator, Photoshop) is antialiasing pictures when printing. And none is even giving you that option. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer probably does antialias when printing, but that's hardly respectable, professional quality software.
extended summary a bit.
from issue 40308 (from tlknv): Hi! I think that antialiasing of inserted bitmaps when printing in OODraw would be a very helpfull improvment. Let me explain my arguments against "http://sw.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=issues&msgNo=71237". Althougt Gimp and others don't have antialiasing when printing, it is easy to simulate antialiasing by resizing a picture. At present, in order to get antialising, the best way to go seems: 1) Run the Gimp and copy the picture from the OODraw to the Gimp through the clipboard. 2) Resize the picture with the Gimp. 3a) Either copy the pictute from the Gimp to the OODraw throuh the clipboard, which hangs my PC for about 5 minutes and results in a huge object in OODraw OR 3b) copy the picture throught a temporary jpg file. My "ABC" project which is 10MB would grow at least to 40MB. Even saving a 10MB project takes several seconds on my PC ( HDD 10GB, UDMA33, NTFS ). Moreover, resizing 360 pictures in my "ABC" in that way would take many hours. Thus, I think that it would be beneficial to have antialiasing when printing to minimize the project size and maximize effeciency, and it could be either a project option, a picture option, or both. Thank you in advance, Boris Toloknov
*** Issue 40308 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
That's why I suggested to have an option for antialising the image or not. I am not sure if two option is needed (one for the on-screen presenting and one other for on-paper presenting). The suggestion of Boris Toloknov mentioned at Jan 15 12:44:58 -0800 2005, a project option, can be a good idea as well but probably using styles would be better and more general solution.
Sorry, did anything happen during the last four years? I am not sure, but I think this should not be a hard-to-implement feature, is it? Unfortunatelly I do not have time to participate in the development but I wish all the bests who can. All the things I can do is to use OOo and report bugs and wishes if I find any.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".