Often when I make a change in the screen resolution on my computer, or when installing Atlantis on a new computer the graphics on my .rtf articles will look "fractured". That is, they look like the paint is cracking or peeling on an old picture.
If I slightly re-size the graphic, or if I re-size the entire article by about 2% (up or down) the graphics look fine again.
Toggling "super compact" on or off doesn't seem to make any difference.
Is there a better way to fix this than by re-sizing? Am I "damaging" my articles by re-resizing them too often?
Of course, I'm sure this graphics distortion is due to the properties of the video cards, but I'm just wondering if others notice this characteristic?
Computer resolution changes makes some graphics look odd
Pictures might look poorer if you switch to a lower color depth of your video card. Are you sure that changing the screen resolution results in poorer document display?
Anyway it is recommended to restart Atlantis after you change the screen resolution and especially color depth.
When you resize a picture in Atlantis, you simply instruct Atlantis to display this picture under some zooming factor (scale). The graphic object (PNG, JPEG, or metafile) associated with this picture remains unchanged. So you can safely resize pictures in Atlantis without worrying about data loss.
Anyway it is recommended to restart Atlantis after you change the screen resolution and especially color depth.
When you resize a picture in Atlantis, you simply instruct Atlantis to display this picture under some zooming factor (scale). The graphic object (PNG, JPEG, or metafile) associated with this picture remains unchanged. So you can safely resize pictures in Atlantis without worrying about data loss.
=========admin wrote:Pictures might look poorer if you switch to a lower color depth of your video card. Are you sure that changing the screen resolution results in poorer document display?
When you resize a picture in Atlantis, you simply instruct Atlantis to display this picture under some zooming factor (scale). The graphic object (PNG, JPEG, or metafile) associated with this picture remains unchanged. So you can safely resize pictures in Atlantis without worrying about data loss.
Well, it's good to know that altering the view size of entire articles or just the graphics does not "wreck" the graphics. Would hate to goof up my articles done over the years.
A couple of other observations:
1: when I experimentally cut and paste an Atlantis article (saved in supercompressed form) into a Word Perfect .wpd format the graphics are often stretched vertically. I can correct this by re-sizing the graphics in the Word Perfect destination. Tables of contents and bookmarks remain intact.
2: when I experimentally cut and paste an Atlantis article into a Open Office Writer .odt format page the graphics are ok, but the text needs re-working to get rid of some shadows or embossing. Again, that's fixable. Tables of contents and bookmarks remain intact.
3: when I experimentally cut and paste an Atlantis article into a Microsoft Wordpad .rtf page all text and graphics are ok, but of course the table of contents gets lost since Wordpad doesn't do that.
I'm not saying there is anything wrong with Atlantis....just noting the results of "playing around" with different formats and programs vs. Atlantis.
I don't have Microsoft Word on board, so I've no idea how it would react to an Atlantis cut and paste experiment.
Additionally, the resultant Word Perfect or Open Office articles that I paste end up multiple times larger than the original Atlantis versions. I assume that is probably due to the compressed nature of the Atlantis articles.
One more thing. If I save an Atlantis article in non-supercompressed form the graphics can still be odd looking till I change the view size by about two percentage points. That implies to me that it's just the way my video cards see the Atlantis articles.
Sorry for the rambling post. Maybe my findings will be useful in some way.
Note that when you copy the document selection in Atlantis (when you place its copy onto the Windows clipboard), Atlantis does not place "supercompact" graphics onto the clipboard because most word processing software do not support PNGs and JPEGs in RTF documents. Non-supercompact RTFs include images in the so called "Windows metafile" format. Supercompact RTFs always include PNGs or JPEGs.