Options help- "Resize large imported photos"

[rpc9943]

Hey all,

What exactly consists of a large photo? Every time I am working on say a 1x1inch template and paste images, they often come in *very* large, to the point where I have to click on Width: 10% (or less sometimes) until it is scaled to a manageable size for my template. I have it set to resize large imported photos down to 125pixels, but apparently it's not doing that. I wish there was an option for "resize imported photos to page size" or something.

Anyways, am I missing something? Do I have to type in the values to resize every image, or is there a way to automatically resize things?

RonC

[handrawn]

Hey all,

I have it set to resize large imported photos down to 125pixels, but apparently it's not doing that.

RonC

does it not?

you haven't assigned a value and then changed to one of the other two options have you - it will only do the selected option of the three

[rpc9943]

Yes, of course I have that option selected. I simply think that xara and my idea of a large image being imported are different. Like most images are imported at like 4x or larger than the pagesize in my template. Lol! I guess it's just not intuitive based upon what the pagesize is set to. I wish for an option like that, one that knows that pagesize matters when importing images .

RonC

[handrawn]

then it should resize Ron

the size of imports has nothing whatsoever to do with the page size in xara - in xara the page is a print/export feature

[handrawn]

just to make sure [as I can't recall ever having used this setting ] I used a 9922 by 14032 BMP I had handy [file size 398MB for the record] created with manga studio - and imported it into XPGD7 with the setting at 125

xara reduced it so that the 14032 pixel dimension became 125 pixel [and the notional dpi/ppi on the status bar went skyward ]

[rpc9943]

lol yeah... I get it. It's just awkward when working with a specific page size, I realize how vector works but I don't think that xara puts enough emphasis on actually USING the page. Why even have a page in there except for when printing, then? I wish objects would be cut off when they're dragged off of the page, and that export would be this locked down thing to the page size. I really do.

RonC

[handrawn]

ah well xara is an object based vector editor - you need to look at it from that point of view

the way to look at it really is that every object you create [or import] is a page unto itself and you can move them all around - you can group objects to merge 'pages'

its

edit - hey once again I press 'submit' instead of 'go advanced' - hang on in there this post is not fininshed ...

[handrawn]

.. to continue..

so you have lots of 'pages' all available at once and you can move them all around at will

the 'page area' [that white bit] is really just a 'catchment area' for print, and a definable area for export, but not the default for export for reasons which become obvious when you look at it as object[s] first

and that is why a common way to make all this 'behave' is to have everything within the boundaries of a 'master object' which is exported, taking the rest with it as say, a group, a soft group, a clipview.....

[handrawn]

now it needs to be said that the above is not necessarily a useful way of looking at things for designing websites - just graphics

[rpc9943]

Well, I could get into the whole "it's a vector engine so it doesn't work that way" argument... And it IS an argument because we're dealing with a slightly hybrid engine. Needless to say, I simply wondered if there was an option to "resize all imported images to X size". There is not, I wondered if there was clarification from "import large images", but sounds like its just dealing with very very very high resolution images.