Description: UI: Ability to set configure image resolution to be shown in inch instead of cm, if other dimensions are in CM Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open the attached file with an profile using CM as measure 2. Select the image 3. File -> Export -> Pick file name & check Selection. 4. Dialog appears showing Pixel in CM 5. Close the dialog 6. Right click the image & compress -> Notice image dimension configured here in DPI Actual Results: Pixel in CM Expected Results: *Compress dialog should have a selector for how DPI should be presented (not fixed to Inch). Coherence with Compress dialog * It should be possible to configure the 'default'. DPI is the 'conventional' measure (or me not getting used to CM.. and correcting it for every export being kind of frustrating (but well maybe personal perk) Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Version: 7.2.0.0.alpha0+ (x64) / LibreOffice Community Build ID: dc3b64dcbfb0a49c0be65bd8d73ed4e6d3828a21 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.3 Build 9600; UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); UI: en-US Calc: CL
Created attachment 170543 [details] Example file
Duplicate but the idea has been criticized as "micro-management" in bug 40656. Please discuss on bug 72662. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 72662 ***
Heiko, If you set your units to "cm" in the measurement settings, then your dpi, should be dpcm. That is the smart, well designed solution. The inelegant, cluttered UI solution is to make the user select units in every dialog box that has units. This ignores the fact that there are natural units accepted units. This is only a dupe of bug 72662 if you make the user micromanage the units in every dialog box. The correct solution is for LibreOffice to be smarter about how it handles units.
Would be a challenge to calculate with dpcm when dpi is the standard. Fact is that we use different units.
(In reply to Luke from comment #3) > Heiko, > If you set your units to "cm" in the measurement settings, then your dpi, > should be dpcm. That is the smart, well designed solution. > > The inelegant, cluttered UI solution is to make the user select units in > every dialog box that has units. This ignores the fact that there are > natural units accepted units. > > This is only a dupe of bug 72662 if you make the user micromanage the units > in every dialog box. The correct solution is for LibreOffice to be smarter > about how it handles units. So to summarize, you want to go DPI route. Similar to the compress dialog in the current shape. I'm fine with that (it's worth the complexity and clutter) but pretty sure there is some group wanting it differently (there plenty of image editors around giving the option to choose between units; sadly, IMHO). So I speculate people complaining they can't choose measures anymore. Or maybe some group finds inches stupid measure and CM superior. And we can do history lesion why different measuring system are invented for the same thing. Say celsius/Fahrenheit. Miles/KM. Except you can localize nearly everything. So things build in EU don't fit in UK (speaking about protectionism) And computer somehow more UK/VS oriented. So screen diagonals are again in INCH. And the internet made everything even more 'interconnected'. Which makes the 'negative side-effects' more obvious. Carrying about the triviality's around DPI/DPCM (or paper sizes for that matter A4/Letter). It's quite insane that this still not sorted out with multiple standards. But well I'm as attached to CM/KM/Celsius/compared someone else feels connected to Inch/Mile/Feet/Fahrenheit And units being Imperial giving 'cachet to it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units Long life a form of historical nationalism in today's world
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 88132 ***