When converting a text box with just text in it to a .jpg or .png image it works EXCEPT it appears blurry; not as crisp as when printing from Writer or Draw. I use frames/text boxes occasionally with an image AND text, convert entire frame to an image but, again, the text is blurred a bit. If I print directly from Writer or Draw without converting the box to an image, it is fine. Need to convert however for some of the ways it is being used. Any ideas? I looked online and could not find any positive information on converting a text box to .jpg.
Keep an eye on the resolution. Typical resolution for professional prints is at 300dpi.
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(In other software I sometimes have a blurred preview, but the prints/pdf is perfect. I don’t do this kind of processing in LO, so I don’t know if this may occur in LibreOffice also.)
Is it necessary to convert to bitmap? SVG could be scaled better.
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Open the image in Draw, add the text box, select both and click File > Export. In the dialogue tick the box Selection only, then select svg, give it a name and location and click Save then the text does not need to be converted separately.
However, the text in the resulting image can still be edited in Draw by importing the image and clicking Shape > Break
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Thank you, Wanderer. I do use 300 dpi; I will see how it prints out. If it prints out fine, despite blurry on screen, I’m okay with that. Since I needed to find a new desktop publisher (Scribus), unlike MS Publisher, I actually need to import more as opposed to playing with image/text onscreen. Also, thank you to Earnest Al, I will try your method although I do not think I can import .svg into Scribus (but will check it out). I do select all objects (image/s, text, etc.) and export as .jpg, .png, etc. The images tend to be fine but the text is blurry no matter what I’ve tried (different resolutions, fonts, etc.).
Sharpness when exporting to an image format also depends on the text box size/font size.
A workarround can be:
1.- Zoom in the text box
2.- Take a screenshot
3.- Treat the image with a program like Gimp.
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