How to insert multipage image?

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#1

I have a ~ 1000 x 2400 pixel image I’d like to insert in a document. It has to keep the original ratio and should be as wide as needed up to the paragraph width; meaning if the image would be 200 pixel wide and paragraph 300, then it should have the original size, but keeping the same paragraph width, if the image was twice the size then it would be shrunk 1/4 but keeping the same ratio. How should I do this?

I made
OO-multipage_image.odt (30.9 KB)
which has a censored version of the image (thus same size) and placeholder text.

Thank you kindly

#2

LO is not an image manipulation program. It does not allow sophisticated cropping or scaling.

Writer will always store the image at its original size with a “memo” for cropping and scaling. Unfortunately, though an image is laid out with a frame style, a frame style does not provide means to record cropping and scaling in order to apply them automatically.

If you have many large pictures, this will uselessly increase your document size (since you don’t display at full resolution).

I suggest you crop and scale in a separate image program to clip what you need inside the picture and set the dpi (for print 300dpi is considered “standard” for home printers and displays nice on 144dpi screens). Paste or link this reduced version in your Writer document.

#3

When I insert images, most of the time it resizes automatically. Have you not witness that behavior? Also I’d like to emphasize the 4th word of the title (in case it gets changed by a mod: multipage). Even if reducing the image size to switch from standard monitor to standard printer size meant that it fit on a single page, what about an image 10X as high?

#4

As your image is uniform black, it is difficult to see if it is cropped or scaled down.

#5

The page size isn’t defined by the monitor, nor the printer, but in the page style. The image has to fit on one page.

To keep the original ratio,

  • Right click the image and select Properties (F4). In the Position and Size tab tick the box Keep inside text boundaries. OK
  • Right click the image and select Properties (F4). In the Crop tab, under scale make the larger percentage, the same value as the smaller percentage, in this case, set Width to 57%.

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