Re: [libreoffice-users] Any reason why resizing an image does not keep aspect ratio by default?

Hi :)
Maybe a bug-report / feature-request to ask for a change?

It would make sense to me if grabbing the corners kept the aspect-ratio but
grabbing the sides, or top or bottom allowed you to distort the image.

Inkscape does it by showing the width and height of the current selection
and then has a chain-lock between them.  When it's locked the image keeps
it's aspect ratio.

I had no idea about the shift key locking the aspect-ratio so thanks for
helping make that easier for me!

Errr, i often find people distort logos and images even though they use
packages that supposedly make it easy to keep them undistorted.
Regards from
Tom :)






On 12 April 2014 20:55, Brian Barker <b.m.barker@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 11:48 12/04/2014 -0700, Simon Noname wrote:
>
> > I can hardly understand the choice made in the default behavior when
> > resizing an image. Most of the time, if not always, when I resize an image
> > it is because it is too large and I resize it so its dimension will fit the
> > content design. I very rarely need to flatten or distort an image in any
> > direction. So, for my use case, resizing an image should keep the ratio by
> > default, and for the rare situation when flattening is needed pressing
> > additional keys (shift or whatever) or simply using other handlers than the
> > corner ones would do the trick. However this is not the choice which has
> > been made in LibreOffice, and moreover this behavior is not even
> > configurable. [...] What I would like to understand is why this choice has
> > been made?
>
> I won't attempt to defend this decision, but I think I can see its logic
> or origin.  The default behaviour is to resize - and reshape - the image in
> exactly the way that the mouse dragging is indicating, without any other
> consideration.  The alternative behaviour modifies this by taking into
> account another parameter: the original aspect ratio.  The choice appears
> to be based on logic rather than convenience, using the additional key
> operation to add an additional constraint rather than to remove one.
>
>  Is my use-case so strange and unusual ?
> >
>
> No.
>
>  Do common people most often need to flatten the image and not keeping
> > their ratio ?
>
> Probably not.  (I'm a common person; I usually don't.)
>
>  Why this default behavior is not even configurable?
> >
>
> Dunno.
>
>  ... you have to tell a casual user who is used to just use the mouse to
> > easily resize an image (like it does not only on other well known document
> > editors but also on wysiwyg web editors), ...
>
> Perhaps those responsible for this (other) software got fed up with seeing
> so may distorted images - especially of faces and so on - on web sites and
> the like that they decided to give in and make it easier for users not to
> make that mistake.
>
> Sorry this is no help!
>
> Brian Barker
>
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