Quote Originally Posted by bwood View Post
@acorn - furthering this discussion with a questions.

You can make a thumbnail with the process that you mentioned. But don't you have to have the correct dimensions of the photo before placing into the placeholder? Lets say you want an larger image on a mobile page. You find the dimensions of the placeholder you want - then fit a photo to those particular dimensions. Then 'replace with photo' in placeholder, and throw that saved photo into the placeholder. Of course you do not regenerate image.

If you make a thumbnail - then bring the thumbnail into the placeholder, the thumb that you made must be the correct dimensions of the placeholder. Anyway that's what I'm find after following your instructions. It certainly does save a lot of space - but I'm finding that master photo > thumbnail has to be the correct dimensions of the placeholder, especially if its a hero image. Make sense ?
Bill, yes all sensible.

I said:
Quote Originally Posted by acorn
You can use Xara to create the thumbnail.
Drop a master image onto the design. Yes, mega size alert.
Clone it and make the clone very small.
Create a Bitmap Copy of this small clone. try 64px for its longest side.
Resize and fit to fully cover the original.
Delete the original.
When you save and re-open the design file, the original image will have disappeared from the Bitmap gallery, as any unused bitmaps (nowhere on any page or layer) will be deleted from the file.
The "Delete the original" is really two-fold. From the Bitmap gallery and the design page. When you do this, the image on the design page reverts to the Xara Default. You then delete that. The other way round also works. What you are doing is removing the large image from being stored inside your design file.

Apologies for the lack of clarity.

Acorn