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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    ok well as it is a screenshot maybe setting xara utilities/options/view tab to 'import all photos at 96dpi (1:1 at 100% zoom}' would be best - worth a try
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    Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
    ok well as it is a screenshot maybe setting xara utilities/options/view tab to 'import all photos at 96dpi (1:1 at 100% zoom}' would be best - worth a try
    Thanks for the suggestion, but it does not work. The pasted image is still too small. Weird.

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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    Why not "ViewCaptureToFile". This option seems to allow you to save the bitmap in different formats:

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    Choose the location, file type, and name for the bitmap file.
    BMP, JPG, PCX, PNG, TIFF, and TGA formats are supported.
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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    Quote Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill View Post
    Why not "ViewCaptureToFile".
    Slows down workflow. Just copying and pasting is simpler. That being said, ViewCaptureToFile does offer some additional options such as the capability to create a screenshot with higher resolution than displayed.

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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    Slows down workflow.
    Surely not that much to matter. Just save it as a png to your desktop, Drag and drop into Xara.
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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    I must admit that looks bad. I tried it with several images on my machine and do not get that problem. Could it be that your image was saved then that same imaged saved again as a jpg, each one degrading the image further. That can happen and eventually it is totally washed out.
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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    I'm not sure, but is this to do with the document type?

    I would expect bitmaps to be optimised when pasted into Web documents because the expectation is that they will later be published online but I would not expect automatic optimisation in non-Web documents.

    You could also try the "Help / Info Popups / Turn all on" menu item to ensure that you are given all the relevant options when pasting.

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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    Quote Originally Posted by wizard509 View Post
    Could it be that your image was saved then that same imaged saved again as a jpg, each one degrading the image further.
    No. As I wrote before, the image is stored as a device-independent uncompressed bitmap in the clipboard. If pasted into Xara, it’s compressed to JPEG. If pasted into Paint, it retains its full quality. The discussion is starting to repeat itself.

    Quote Originally Posted by PhilM View Post
    I'm not sure, but is this to do with the document type?
    Happens also when pasting into an A4 sized document for printing.

    I would expect bitmaps to be optimised when pasted into Web documents because the expectation is that they will later be published online
    Even then Xara should not convert to JPEG automatically: A simple line drawing on white background, for example, can be better compressed as PNG than as JPEG.

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    Default Re: How to prevent Xara from “optimizing” bitmap on paste?

    This might also come in handy; look in the registry under the hive HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Xara\XtremePro x64\<version>\Options\Filters. There are numerous keys to fiddle with. The ones that you could definitively change are BitmapCompression and ImportJPEGQuality. But be aware and know what you're doing !

    (Oh, and I rediscovered this older tip considering bitmap size on import: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...gistry+options)
    and digging deeper; a hint from Handdrawn: options/filters/optimiseJpegfrompng - set to 0 (from: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...ght=ImportSize)

 

 

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