lockLoc [was Re: Alpha Channel?]

[Marty Billingsley]

Mark Talluto <userev at canelasoftware.com> writes:
>
> On Jun 10, 2004, at 9:43 AM, Marty Billingsley wrote:
>
> > Is there any other software that really works in this manner?
> > Photoshop, for example, keeps track of the original dimensions
> > so you can revert or step back in history.  Web editing software,
> > of course, doesn't touch the original image, but if you resize a
> > picture, that resized image stays on your web page.  Somebody
> > mentioned MS Word, but it, too, behaves as I would expect.
>
> A long time ago MC used to handle images the way you wanted.  When you
> sized the image down, it would lose the original data.  Sizing the
> image back up would cause pixilation.  I requested as probably many
> others did to have the data retained after resizing.  This made making
> desktop publishing like apps easier to produce.  The side effect of the
> feature request was that you needed to lockloc the image after it was
> sized down.  Is only a single line of code.

Would it be too much to ask Rev to remember the original image date
(i.e., all the pixels) *and* the resizing that I did?  inDesign seems
to do this, even if you don't keep the image file as an external
reference.  I don't know how Word handles it.

Add to my user interface wish list for RR.  :-)

  - marty

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Marty Billingsley (marty at ucls.uchicago.edu)
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