Embedded image sizes: How to achieve 1:1?

[altenbach]

When embedding images, there are three size selections (Small, medium, large) as well as manual resizing by the corner handles.

LabVIEW diagrams and front panels are very much pixel oriented and typically look best if the displayed size matches the image dimensions exactly. (There is a reason we cannot scale the diagram in classic LabVIEW!)

It is not clear how this very desirable view size can be achieved for smaller embedded images. Is one of the size selections already a 1:1 pixel ratio? If not, it would be great to have that as additional option (of course for large images that would explode the windows, it should cap the size and scale down to the paragraph width but it should show 1:1 as long as it fits.)

[LiliMcDonald]

Hi Christian,

Even before the editor upgrade, I don't believe there was ever a pixel perfect option when uploading images to the site. The images always have gone through some compression. I understand how important pixel-perfect images can be but it appears to be a limitation of the platform. We can raise this enhancement idea to our vendor though.

Thanks,

Lili

[MichaelBalzer]

I've found the large image option will always be 1:1, up to the forum width limit. It then gets rescaled to fit the maximum width of the forum. The small and medium options just scale the original image down, whereas large retains 1:1 (it doesn't scale them up AFAICT).

For example this post has an image inserted with the large setting, and looks 1:1. If you resize the browser window smaller than the image width, it then gets resized to fit the window.

[altenbach]

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@MichaelBalzer wrote:

I've found the large image option will always be 1:1, up to the forum width limit..

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I was actually suspecting that, but wasn't sure. Yes, "large" typically looks fine. I would suggest that "large" should be the default. Most won't try to find the settings menu popup. 😉

Of course we can also manually resize, in which case all bets are probably off 😄