Bug 77943 - VIEWING: Add graphic display option to render vector images as low resolution bitmap images
Summary: VIEWING: Add graphic display option to render vector images as low resolution...
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
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4.2.3.3 release
Hardware: All All
: low enhancement
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Blocks: Writer-Images
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Reported: 2014-04-25 18:52 UTC by Jean-Sébastien Gosselin
Modified: 2022-07-21 12:20 UTC (History)
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Description Jean-Sébastien Gosselin 2014-04-25 18:52:39 UTC 
This is a suggestion for a new feature in Writer.

Currently, vertical scrolling in LibreOffice Writer is very slow with eps or svg. See this bug report for example:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37837

It is hard to work efficiently in a document with eps or svg images without disabling "Graphics and objects" display in Tools->Libre Office Writer->View.

Instead of disabling completely graphics display, would it be possible to have an option so that Writer would render vector images as low resolution bitmap images?

For example, in Scribus, images are rendered as low dpi bitmap images in the "working mode". Moving images around is then very smooth and fast. It is possible to activate a "preview mode" that allows a better rendering of images if needed.

Best regards

Jean-Sébastien Gosselin 
Operating System: Ubuntu
Version: 4.2.3.3 release
Comment 1 Jorendc 2014-07-16 21:12:19 UTC 
Sounds like a valid enhancement request to me -> NEW.

Kind regards,
Joren