Re: Web Designer importing images wrong size
The problem is that hindsight is a wonderful thing.
I, and I suspect many others - who remain blissfully unaware - did not realise I had a problem until things didn't look right on previewing the webpage. I did not think for one moment that my 575 pixel wide image would be reduced in any way shape or form at all! so my point is that until I was aware, I was, er totally unaware! and why should I have even suspected as nowhere in the documentation AFIK does it say that this barmy "feature" will occur!
I know now! - that's my point.....
I'm in the product forum to advertise for a time machine to go back and save the time I lost scratching my head and other areas trying to figure out what was going on!!!!!
Programmers!!!!!
Dave
Re: Web Designer importing images wrong size
Web Designer Help says:Photos
You can replace any photo by dragging and dropping it from your File Explorer onto any photo in Web Designer. If you drop it onto the background then it is imported and placed on the the page where you dropped it. All imported photos are shown as 500 pixels, but you can of course change this to be any size in the usual way with the Selector tool
You can also, by the way simply resize the photo (precisely) by entering a number at the Size 'H' or 'W' on the infobar.
Re: Web Designer importing images wrong size
Oh that's alright then. I must remember from now on when using programs that rely on graphics and images that when importing strange things like photopictures I must make allowances for the application to alter them as it sees fit unless I read the help files, that is, if I even noticed it had adjusted them..... er no, I don't think so.
I think you might find that anyone who buys XWD will not realise what is happening when they import an image that is wider than 500 pixels! and if a user drops down a 5MB image onto a webpage without realising the implications of this then they should have their computer taken away.
Dave
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hopefully no-one who knew what they were doing would buy this program without taking advantage of the 30 day trial and learning things like this first ;)
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handrawn
hopefully no-one who knew what they were doing would buy this program ;)
Oh how I laughed when I read the first bit of your post...
Dave
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Yes I rather thought you would :rolleyes::D
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Originally Posted by
broomcroft
Oh that's alright then. I must remember from now on when using programs that rely on graphics and images that when importing strange things like photopictures I must make allowances for the application to alter them as it sees fit unless I read the help files, that is, if I even noticed it had adjusted them..... er no, I don't think so.
I think you might find that anyone who buys XWD will not realise what is happening when they import an image that is wider than 500 pixels! and if a user drops down a 5MB image onto a webpage without realising the implications of this then they should have their computer taken away.
Dave
Hey Broomcroft,
I'm brand new to XWD and to be honest, I found the image size very quickly. It depends on what you're doing with the program I think but really, be reasonable. This program is $49, not $490 like many others that aren't nearly as easy to use.
I feel this is great value for money and to be honest, there is a place for these kind of posts....maybe you should suggest the change, though I've seen many others have already.
I really hope you start finding out the great things about this program and help figuring out how to circumvent it's limitations....
Ed......:-)
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I'm just fooling around - it is very good value, although I do often wonder how software decisions come about. I mean to implement a resize on images above 500 pixels wide on a program where all standard pre-defined page sizes are above 640 pixels wide is, well, beyond me!!
The simplest solution would be to, yes, resize any image that is larger than the width of the page to the width of the page! That way no-one could get into trouble.
Dave
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Re: Web Designer importing images wrong size
Hello Dave (Broomcroft).
You can turn off the resizing of imported photos in Web Designer using XaReg. It is available from the shareware page of the XaraXone.
http://www.xaraxone.com/html/shareware.html
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OK one last time...
If Microsoft or Adobe brought out a version of Word, Publisher or Photoshop, or indeed any other program from anyone else that resized images greater than 500 pixels and needed users to log into a product forum to, firstly find out about it and then to, by chance also find out there was a shareware utility program to correct this - I think there would be a few choice posts on the respective forums.
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