Resolution is best set in a graphics editor. For a hard copy, use a minimum of 300 DPI, or 600 DPI or higher for quality printing.

Deciding to crop the image or to add indicators to point to features.įor an online document, a resolution of 72 DPI (dots per inch) is usually enough.

Setting the image’s resolution and print size.

However, the four operations necessary for every image are:

Graphics editors allow you to change the size and colors of an image and do many other operations besides. If the image is already open, right-click to copy it, then paste it in a new file in the graphics editor. You can open images in other applications by right-clicking and selecting EDIT WITH EXTERNAL TOOL, or directly from the graphics editor. If some images are too large to display legibly at this size, consider adding a landscape page style for them. You will need this measurement when sizing images.

You can determine this distance by subtracting the vertical margins from the page width given on the PAGE tab of each page style. Editors such as GIMP and Krita are free to download for all the operating systems that LibreOffice runs on.īefore editing images, measure the distance between the left and right (or inner and outer) margins on all pages where images might display.

Graphics editors can be a more versatile and reliable way of preparing images than the tools that LibreOffice itself provides. The following is an excerpt from TNS author Bruce Byfield‘s newly published book “ Designing with LibreOffice,” which is all about getting the most from the LibreOffice open source office document suite.

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