Re: Graphic Size Problem

[Alexander Taranov <tay@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Norman Walsh writes:
 > / Chuck Darney <cdarney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> was heard to say:
 > | I've just started using Word97 (from Word95) and find that the graphic
 > | signature I have in the document now extends across the page instead of
 > | a reasonable signature size.  I've tried adding "scale:'max" and "scale:
 > | 'max-uniform" with "max-width" and "max-height" statements in the "make
 > | external-graphic". This is found in dbgraph.dsl. 
 > 
 > There are (apparently) some difficult/impossible to control interactions
 > between scaling and the Word graphic import filters.  In practice, I think
 > this means you can't set the height or width of graphics.
 > 
 > However, based on a report of success, I've added support for
 > the scale attribute on graphic to db108b7.  So if the image is
 > twice as big as it should be, you may be able to say "scale=50"
 > on the graphic and get Word to make it the right size.  No
 > promises, it hasn't actually worked for me yet.

I suspect that it is me who initiated  this patch to db108.
I've never try it with RTF backend, but it works with TEX backend.
alexander

 > 
 > | On a similar vein, has anyone used WordPerfect to read the RTF files? 
 > | There are some significant difference in the look.  Graphics don't read
 > | at all.  Is there any way to make WordPerfect work better?
 > 
 > Have you tried the rtf-95 backend?
 > 
 > --norm
 > 
 > 
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