In Writer pictures show in tiny size

LDP · June 24, 2021, 12:13pm

Text document (as .doc) was created in OpenOffice with many pictures and under them text in CAPTION paragraph style.
Pictures were add by Insert > picture.
Only picture size attribute was modified in the Image property window.

Subsequently some work was done on the document in LibreOffice Writer and it was saved.
When I opened it again in LibreOffice all pictures are shown tiny.

See enclosed “image as show.jpg”
“Image property window.jpg” shows image size etc. properties.

$C:\fakepath\Image as shown.jpg$

(inline display activated by ajlittoz)

How can the photos be automatically or manually resized to size set in OpenOffice?

LibreOffice 7.1.4.2 Windows 10.0 build 19042

Tried saving document as .odt. That didn’t help, but if I looked at a picture’s attributes and then closed the image size property window the picture was shown correctly in the document. Tried that with a few pictures. Same thing happened in the .doc version of the document.

The attributes were as follows:

BORDERS all 0

CROPPING
Left: -4.02 Right: -4.02 top: -2.34 Bottom: -2.34
Image size Width: 3.5 Height: 2.04
Scale Width: 17% Height: 17%

This was annoying, but at least I know what to do in the future

ajlittoz · June 24, 2021, 1:42pm

Edit your question to provide more technical information about the pictures and what Writer says about them.

Don’t forget to mention your OS and LO version.

Please do not use Add Answer but edit your original question to enhance the details of your question (answers are reserved for solutions to a problem on this Q&A site).

ajlittoz · June 25, 2021, 6:17am

What is in Crop and Borders tabs? You may have a reduced version of the picture with padding space.

What happens if you save .odt after fixing the issue? Does it reopen correctly?

ajlittoz · June 25, 2021, 7:44am

The combination of -17% and negative crops explains the aspect of the picture. Now how was it set so? I suspect some “glitch” in the conversion process.

LDP · June 25, 2021, 9:50am

You are right.
Since such settings are associated with all pictures this is probably a conversion bug.

Maybe the way to avoid this is to start with and save a blank document in .doc format and keep it that way.
I have to experiment with this to avoid future problems.

The current document is about 350 pages, so I have to expect some future problems.
At least it is easy to recover the intended picture size and looks.

Thank you very much for your help.