[Bug 40469] Modifed Frame Style Options Not Preserved, "Keep Ratio" Option Unavailable

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40469

--- Comment #14 from PeterCraigMartin@Gmail.com <PeterCraigMartin+LO@Gmail.com> ---
CONFIRMED: The inability to preserve inserted images' aspect ratio in frame
styles in LibreOffice Writer 4.3.5.2 on Windows 7 x64. The "Keep ratio"
checkbox is grayed-out.

This is actually a *major* problem for users who must insert a large number of
disparately dimensioned images into a document and set them at either a uniform
width or uniform height, without stretching or squishing them. The time
required to format (or re-format) hundreds of inserted images individually is
hundreds of time higher than the time required to modify a single style.

A potential distant-second-best workaround might be to write a macro to apply
initial or subsequently modified frame properties to inserted images
individually. While still very tedious and time-consuming, this would cut down
on the time required by a factor of, say, 10 to 20, and would reduce the
potential for isolated typing mistakes even more. Unfortunately for ordinary
(non-coder) users, setting frame properties doesn't seem to be amenable to
recording: when I tried it, non-default settings in only one tab were recorded
-- and I'm not sure all of *them* were -- and after a second or third attempt,
the record macro feature stopped working. (Clicking the "Stop recording" button
closed the box without offering the user a chance to name the macro.) I haven't
searched for this bug yet or fully explored it myself, but I mention it as it's
relevant here. 

Ideally, in the Frame Style dialog box's Type tab, the user should be able to
specify *either* width *or* height, click the "Keep ratio" checkbox, and have
the unspecified dimension left blank and free to be calculated on the fly for
each inserted image the frame style is applied to.

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