Compress Pictures

re: Compress Pictures

Orion Adrian — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:23:44 GMT

While I'm glad you made this easier to find (I actually knew about it and realized how hard it was to find), I'm not loving the idea of it doing the cropping automatically. This should be part of the finishing process. I will often (and I know other heavy PowerPoint users who do the same) who will change the crop of a picture after they've saved it. Sometimes it will go through multiple revisions and sometimes the person changing the crop will not be the person with the original image. So I'm thinking that this should be part of the finishing menu.

re: Compress Pictures

LGFN — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 01:16:16 GMT

Great post!! looking forward for more!

re: Compress Pictures

Echo — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:13:22 GMT

I'm not sure I like the automatic removal of the crop. I understand why you've added it, but I know some of us have come to rely on this bizarre quirk of PPT. (I use it often when I've received files from others and I need to get at the originals. Since they didn't know about the "compress pictures" options, the original was usually there, just waiting for me to free it from the nonproportionate sizing and weird crops inflicted upon it by unknowing users.)

I'm glad someone else posted that they're not thrilled with the new crop behavior -- I thought it would just be me.

Also, is there a way to change the 220 default PPI? (Maybe a registry hack?)

re: Compress Pictures

Christian — Sat, 29 Jul 2006 04:53:43 GMT

I always used this compress option to
- CROP images so that sensitive parts of my desktop were not saved and I had only the screenshot
- NOT reduce the quality: I wanted the non-croped pixels to stay the same!

This dialogue looks like it will not allow me to choose "Leave DPI alone, don't resize"!

What if I want no resize, but need cropping-removal?

I'm afraif of blurriness. Screenshots should NEVER be resized! They only look great in original size or if at most one resizing was done