Resolution of Exported Images

[CKinTX]

I tried the same procedure in DesignerPro 15, and it provides a crisp image. But, 15 still has that unresolved bug concerning resizing bitmaps which is a major inconvenience for me.

Although, that doesn't answer why less than a week ago, it worked fine with 365

[Promidi]

But, 15 still has that unresolved bug concerning resizing bitmaps which is a major inconvenience for me.

Have you installed the update to 15.1? Also, after updating, right click "Lock Aspect Ratio" and deselect "Smart Transform"

[Jonopen]

To ensure exported images are perfectly crisp and as sharp as when originally captured, I have to do the following:

1. take the PrtScr screenshot and paste onto a page, in my case, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer v16.
2. scale the screenshot image to 100% (see first screenshot below)
3. export the selected image as a png ensuring the export height and width pixel size are the same as the original screenshot size. To find this out take a look in the Bitmap gallery (see second screenshot). This will change the dpi value to that of your Windows system display.

In my particular case I run my Windows system with a custom scale set to 120% to make everything slightly easier to read on my laptop. So when I export a png I have to set the export dpi to 115. Once you've worked out what this value is for your system you can just type it in without worrying about pixel sizes.

I don't fully understand all this, but it works for me, so hope it put you on the right track.

[CKinTX]

To ensure exported images are perfectly crisp and as sharp as when originally captured, I have to do the following:

1. take the PrtScr screenshot and paste onto a page, in my case, Xara Photo & Graphic Designer v16.
2. scale the screenshot image to 100% (see first screenshot below)
3. export the selected image as a png ensuring the export height and width pixel size are the same as the original screenshot size. To find this out take a look in the Bitmap gallery (see second screenshot). This will change the dpi value to that of your Windows system display.

In my particular case I run my Windows system with a custom scale set to 120% to make everything slightly easier to read on my laptop. So when I export a png I have to set the export dpi to 115. Once you've worked out what this value is for your system you can just type it in without worrying about pixel sizes.

I don't fully understand all this, but it works for me, so hope it put you on the right track.

Thanx, Jonopen. That's pretty much what I've done, except I have Import at dpi specified in the image file, rather than Resize large imported photos down to X pixels in Options/View, to avoid having to expand large images all the time. But, the problem was not with viewing the images in Xara; that never changed. It was only when they were saved as PNGs and then imported to Word.

I had no problem with the resolution, the crispness, at all until just last Monday. But, today, the problem seems to have gone away. My images imported to Word are as crisp as they've always been, except for those I created earlier in the week; they're still fuzzy and will have to be replaced.

I don't know how this happened; either for the problem to occur or for it to have gone away. I've not changed any settings or made any other adjustments. The problem seems to have just disappeared. All I can think now is that, because of the move to our new offices, on a new network, I have to VPN to my drives - nothing is stored locally. I don't know if the VPN process might have damaged the resolution, somehow, and that something, somewhere along the connection chain might have been corrected, adjusted, lost, gained, who knows what to have first created the problem and, now, to have resolved it.

Anyway, now it seems to be working just as it has for years.

Maybe it was gremlins...

[CKinTX]

Have you installed the update to 15.1? Also, after updating, right click "Lock Aspect Ratio" and deselect "Smart Transform"

Yup, 15.1. Version 15.1.0.53605, in fact.

I just tried deselecting Smart Transform and the same thing happens.

If I click on a bitmap image, say a PNG, it has the look of having been selected with the "Enhance Photos" tool, rather than just the Selector tool, even though the Selector tool is the one highlighted on the tool bar.

If I try to resize the object using one of the handles, it behaves exactly as it should using the "Enhance Photos" tool, even though that's not the active tool.

I submitted a report to Xara on this months ago - May, I believe - and Xara replied that it was a known bug. I had hoped, by now, they'd have an update to fix it.

[handrawn]

you also need to activate the select tool boundary handles - click on the first button on the left on the selector tool infobar

[CKinTX]

you also need to activate the select tool boundary handles - click on the first button on the left on the selector tool infobar

Hmm. I'll look at that.

OK, I had never paid attention to that button before. Well, that sets the handles the way I expect, However, I wonder why Xara told me it's a problem that they were aware of, if that's all it takes.

Well, thanx for the tip, handrawn.

[handrawn]

because at that time [May?] they had not yet fixed it?

Glad you got it to work

[Jonopen]

Glad things are working back to normal.

[CKinTX]

because at that time [May?] they had not yet fixed it?

Glad you got it to work

Perhaps. I wish they'd've answered one of my queries about it, so that I could have quit using 365 and used 15.

But, no matter now. It works and that's all that matters.

Thanx!