Tip on inserting images
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For some reason I wanted to put a picture from a CAD drawing in my LO file. I was surprised that the image did not come into LO to scale. If I make a pdf of my CAD sheet and print it or run it through another program, it's usually to scale. LO is screwy this way.
I figured this out. I don't know if anyone cares but:
To keep LO from shrinking your image the LO page into which you insert the raster image has to be at least 1.25 times as large in each dimension as the dimensions of the image. I only tested with a 24" x 36" image so this may vary, but just make the page overly large. Then you have to be zoomed to see all of the page, or else LO will shrink the image anyway. After that you can change the LO page to the size you actually want to use. Crop your image or whatever. LO will update it if you update the image file, keeping whatever masking, rotating, or sizing you've done to the image.
Now, in a similar vein, if you want to scale a image you've already inserted, based on a scale in the image itself see this: http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/2011/09/scaling-imported-raster-images-in.html but be aware we are talking about two different kinds of "scale".
Just a tip.
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Thanks for posting this tip pbacot.
I'm having the same problem. I'm trying to insert an image into my layout file, the image is the correct size for my requirements so I want it to come in at 100%. However LO seems to shrink or enlarge the size of the image, leaving me to manually resize the image (which was already the right size to start with)!
I can't seem to find a way to tell LO to bring images in at 100% / to scale / actual size. LO seems to randomly resize the image. Maybe this is a bug, or maybe I'm missing something.
Anyway I tried your suggestion, but this didn't seem to work for me. Thanks for the tip anyway.
Patrick.
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Patrick, I have been experimenting with inserting images into LO. It seems if the paper is large enough, the image gets imported at 96 pixels per inch. If the paper is small enough that the image can't fit on the paper, it appears the image gets scaled to about 80% of the shortest paper size inside the margins.
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To insert an existing plan into Layout I just drag the image in scale horizontally and type in the image's horizontal page size, then do the same vertically. Saves a lot of mucking around!
You could also rather easily have a scrapbook with blank images A1, A2, A3, A4 etc and then drag the size you want onto the LO document and then just update the image through the references dialogue.
Both options save you mucking around with page sizes to achieve the same!
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Don't know what you're saying,Richard,but I'll see if I can do that too.
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