never noticed a quality difference chris, although I use mostly PNG not JPG
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@Chris, there ought not to be.
Xara keeps its images unpacked and only applies compression when rendering or exporting.
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@acorn you are more technical than I am
my understanding is that the render you see in the workspace is not the image itself - altering the view quality being the most obvious example - there may be small rounding issues with the workspace render, and these may differ between the methods, and JPG artifacts may play a part... but non of this affects the actual image [what you said effectively ?]
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@handrawn, more or less.
Inputting an actual size or a percentage will only be affecting the numeric calculation not the render.
@Chris - try this.
Size and scale to create two "identical" images.
In the Bitmap gallery, right-click each image and in its Image Properties: Untick Smooth when scaled up.
Now Zoom in and you will now see individual pixels unsmoothed.
Easier to make a value judgement.
Acorn
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Thank you both. This started with a friend casually talking about reducing images for emailing. He made the comment that reducing by percentage retained the quality of a photo, whereas picking a pre-determined size from the options didn't. He was talking about mobile phones, but it had me wondering.
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