Image rendering

[Patrick Julian]

Hello everyone,

after inserting a JPG image from disk into an EA diagram, I cannot get it rendered properly: EA's antialiasing (from the enhanced-1 renderer defined in tools > options > diagrams > appearance) seems to have no effect at all. Apparently it is just applied on connectors (?).

What is more, I resized the image in an external editing program as to avoid EA's resize - which I guess is just as imperfect as image scaling in an old-school browser. However, I cannot set the (externally modified) image to be scaled to exactly 100% altough that might help to avoid the pixelation artifacts  caused by EA's faulty attempt of resizing.

This is a problem especially if you have text in a screenshot that you'd like to include into a diagram. The text becomes pretty much illegible.

Am I missing a cool feature to work around this?

Thanks!
Patrick

P.S.: EA v9.1, Win7

[qwerty]

I just inserted a png and a jpg and they scaled immediately to 100% clearly readable. Maybe you´re playing with the zoom slider bottom right. That will introduce the effect you are seeing.

q.

[Patrick Julian]

Hi,

that was my first thought and I have reset it before asking using the "set to 100%" in the Pan & Zoom view.

Just now I found out another option in the same settings dialog seems to have caused the effect. After resetting "scale view by" to "0%" now everything seems back to normal.

However, after manually resizing a picture you cannot reset it to its original size, right?

[qwerty]

I used the zoom in/out menu without problem. There's a second slider in the Pan&Zoom window which sets the zoom to something different than the even steps from the menu options. But using the Zoom to 100% solves the issue.

Likely the rendering for the printer is not such a problem since the resolution is much finer (except you maybe have a Retina display).

q.