I'm stumped! Image import scaling issue.

[ED]

I remember reading here about this before but my search is not turning anything up.

My problem is, for some strange reason, that when I import a graphic image of any format Xara X1 upscales it by 1.33 or 1.35%

A graphic that is supposed to be 9pixels becomes 12.2pixels. Also 20 becomes 27 and 150 becomes 200 and so on.

I never used to have this problem, but I don't know what I may have done to cause this behavior now.

How do I fix this without having to uninstall/reinstall?

Heeeeeelllpp! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Ed

Can't say what the problem is, but you could try this.

Check in Utilities / Options / Scaling and ensure that you're not using any scaling in your default template.

As a further check you could try this image

The image size is 96 x 96 pixels. If you Right Click/Copy.

Then paste into Xara. Delete. Open the Bitmap Gallery and drag a copy onto the page it should read 96 x 96 pixels.

Egg

[MEB]

Hi Ed
Same problem here althought there´s an easy workaround:
Just check the original width of the image you want to import/paste and then write it in the width of selection box (it has an W near it)when you have the select tool active (with the image selected in Xara off course).
That´s what i do. Still haven´t found why Xara do this...

[Judi A]

It happens when you import or paste a graphic in anything other resolution than 96 dpi

[ED]

Egg...

If I choose "DeviceIndependantBitmap" it comes in at 48x48 pixels (192dpi)

If I choose "bitmap" it comes int at 96x96. So cut and paste, as a bitmap, works as expected.

If I choose import from my hard drive it behaves as already stated above. It comes in too large.

I'm not scaling in my options settings. I'm set to 96dpi "when auto generated".

[ED]

Originally posted by Judi A:
It happens when you import or paste a graphic in anything other resolution than 96 dpi

Are you saying that this behavior is normal and it's due to the original dpi of the source image?

[Judi A]

No, I mean the resolution of the file you are importing. Changing the auto generated option I believe only pertains exporting.

Ooops we posted at the same time.

Are you saying that this behavior is normal and it's due to the original dpi of the source image?

YES

[ED]

Originally posted by Miguel B.:
Hi Ed
Same problem here althought there´s an easy workaround:
Just check the original width of the image you want to import/paste and then write it in the width of selection box (it has an W near it)when you have the select tool active (with the image selected in Xara off course).
That´s what i do. Still haven´t found why Xara do this...

Yes that works but it seem like a lot of exta work as I'm sure you would agree.

[MEB]

Yeah http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif Thanks Judy.
I haven´t spent much time trying to found the reason, i just rescale the image inside Xara X but now that you explained that, it makes all sense, since when we export from Xara the dpi setting will interfere with image size.

[ED]

Are you saying that this behavior is normal and it's due to the original dpi of the source image?

YES[/QUOTE]

My best guess is that this used to work fine in the past and I've imported all shapes, resolution and sizes of images before without this scaling issue.

Also when I view these images in any other viewing program they appear the correct size. With Xara zoomed to 100% they are clearly larger by 1/3 or so. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/confused.gif