[softwarelist] Re: OPro 2.76

In article <6hRieMCLVxcFFw7K@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Pilling
<flist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In message <4e8f8287aaray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ray Favre
> <ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

> I've not been thinking about this problem the way that you have...

That's the trouble with pesky users: they're always doing something
awkward!  :-)

> If I load the Impression document into Ovation Pro, then find the
> *embedded frames* and delete the *frames*, then take one of the
> pictures and drop it into the text story (thus creating a new
> embedded frame) then yes I get a frame which is about 70% of the
> size.

> However the issue is then how Ovation Pro handles creating embedded
> frames compared to how Impression does - there's no reason why
> they should be the same. Probably 100% is in this case more useful
> but 70% is not a sign of anything being wrong.

Ah! That was my misunderstanding.

I thought that OPro always tried to make the dragged drawfile 100% if
there is space for it and only reduced if there is a need to. (And
that was certainly the way I had always recalled it happening before
- but my memory is no doubt at fault.)

> I can believe that there is some oddity in the document conversion
> - perhaps in the original document or the OP filter that leads to
> a corrupt document. Your comment about changing the size might
> point at that - again for an *embedded frame* because changing the
> size of the *frame* means the document will reflow. Changing the
> size of a picture in a fixed frame is by comparison a harmless
> operation.

Yes, some of the clues do still point at the document conversion.

I'll leave you to look sometime ....

> To put it another way, you might have tried to do what I thought
> you were doing, select the picture in the frame, delete the
> picture and then import the picture again into the existing frame.

I have now tried that - although it's not an operational sequence
that I have ever used before (always learning). And it *does* retain
the 100% scale. Thanks, I'll remember that.

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OK, I'm content to leave things here.

Again, thanks for your time - and also the interest others have shown.

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