Subject: Re: Graphic Size Problem From: Oisin McGuinness <oisin@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 07 May 98 11:01:28 -0400 |
If you consult the list archives for around November 7 1997 (in the Digest Vol 1 # 192), there was a prior disussion of the graphic sizing issue. The results are the same today, in jade 1.1. (I just looked at the code for all the backends.) I summarize: a) The TeX backend passes through scaling information. (Quote from S Rahtz: "external-graphic scaling certainly does work....") b) The SGML backend passes all characteristics of the external graphic call through to build an <external-graphics ...> element. c) The RTF backend generates a field using INCLUDEPICTURE. No scaling happens. I quote James Clark's reply: "Jade uses the INCLUDEPICTURE field instruction which doesn't provide a way to do scaling. The alternative would be use use some OLE magic and include the picture as a bitmap, but that would work only on Windows and wouldn't take advantage of Word's graphic filters. One way to fix this might be to generate in addition to the RTF a VB macro that would fix the scaling of the pictures. James" Quite apart from James' suggested fix, another way, requiring a fair bit of work (which has been on my list of things to do when I acquired a lot of free time), would be: a) make sure all external graphics were available, or were converted to WMF, b) use the {\pict } destination in RTF, embedding the WMF directly, following the rules given in the RTF Spec, pages 55-57. Specifying scaling is possible then. Has anyone tried this? (I'm not likely to get to it anytime soon.) And by the way, does anyone have a list of useful Jade extensions, especially with respect to the RTF backend? There is no point in several people doing the same work.... Oisin McGuinness Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets 277 Park Avenue New York NY 10172 USA (212)-224-4913, email: oisin@xxxxxxxx DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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