Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 54235
'Keep Ratio' (aspect ratio) functionality of picture format dialog broken
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:36 UTC
Steps to Reproduce: 1. Insert a picture into an OO Document 2. Double click the picture, or, select the picture and open the format Picture Dialog 3. check the 'Keep Aspect' checkbox in the Type Tab of the Dialog 4. close the dialog 5. resize the picture by dragging any of the drag handles on the picture border 6. The picture does not maintain it's original aspect ratio as expected. Verified that this functionality is broken with the following file types: jpeg, bmp, xpm, png
ATR->WG: Hi Wolfram, please have a look.
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Reproducible. Reassigned.
Uh, seems to be in every application. Don't know if you are you the one to handle it?
The 'keep ratio' checkbox is a dialog feature that changing width or height in the dialog also changes the other setting. It never worked like the protect position and size options in the same dialog as they are for interactive changes outside the dialog. So this is not broken as it still works as designed. Although a way to protect the aspect ratio of images could be a nice feature for the future.
Confirming... cl is correct. On a hunch, I went back into OOWriter and played with it for a bit, and guess what? I found the functionality that I was looking for all along. Turns out that if you hold down the Shift key (on Linux, anyways) when resizing the picture with the drag handles you get the 'maintain aspect ratio' behavior that I had expected to find by checking the 'Keep Ratio' checkbox. The design choices for the UI in the dialog are unfortunate and counter-intuitive, IMO. The functionality controlled by the current 'Keep Ratio' checkbox is similar to that in the 'scale image' dialog of gimp, but gimp uses the ubiquitous 'chain' button UI mechanism. Perhaps this defect should be closed and another opened for a UI change request, what do you think?
Changing this one to an enhancement. The dialog should get a redesign concerning what's happening when you set the "keep aspect" checkmark.
Last comments on this issue indicate that this was resolved to become an enhancement request and not a defect. The issue type has remained as "defect" for quite some time, however. What gives?
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