Re: [Gramps-devel] genealogytree.latex patch: use thumbnails

[Himanshu G. <hg...@ya...>]

On 11/15/2023 5:48 PM, az...@qr... wrote:
> I've been toying with the genealogytree latex report a bit, and 
> noticed that images are included by the latex code in full into the 
> rendering, instead of only the rectangle selected in gramps' media DB. 
> Having lots of big photos with small faces in my setup, this leads to 
> unreasonably huge PDF files with unrecognizably small faces in them.
> ...
>   azrdev

  

Hi @azrdev

  

This change, while potentially solving a problem for people running into issue with large file sizes due to many large images, has led to defect/request 13888 [1]. The request is to revert to the prior behavior, due to two primary reasons:
   
   - The thumbnails are of lower quality than the original images, even when scaled down
   - The filenames used for the thumbnails are not identifiable, i.e. they cannot be linked to the original images.

  

Personally, I feel that the change is beneficial, and I wonder if the following changes could be made?
   
   - Use a different algorithm for generating thumbnails which would result in better quality
   - Apply the original filenames to the thumbnails so they remain identifiable.

  

Not sure if these would make it amenable to the reporter, but it might improve the situation.

  

Himanshu

@codefarmer


https://gramps-project.org/bugs/view.php?id=13888
  
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