Photos and Text - Publishing Options
By Bob Stephen
This article reports tests of importing landscape and portrait photos and then determining what happens to them and the associated text when the results are published.
First some premiminary comments.
If your images are big the program will try to scale them to the system size whatever their pixel sizes and their Mb size. There is an upper limit of 10Mb on the Mb size. There is probably no upper limit on the pixel dimensions.
However, if you import a small picture below a certain pixel size then the system will leave it alone. The examples show a thumbnail of 70 x 80 pixels and its larger image of 350 x 400. These are very small and small images. The effect may be interesting to you. However, if you use very small images they will be excluded in the Publish 3 option. The other two publishing options seem OK for the miniature used.
Publish 1 - TEXT NEXT TO IMAGES (this version of the article)
All photos are put in a panel to the right of the text, taking up approximately half the page width. The scaled image width is a maximum of about 265 pixels. If the original images are bigger than this they will be scaled to fit. If they are smaller they will be left alone.
Publish 2 - TEXT ABOVE IMAGES
Here the text stays above and the pictures appear below the text one under the other. The order is the order of import. The width is their exact width if they are below about 408 pixels wide. Above this size they are scaled down to this dimension to fit the page.
Publish 3 - PHOTO GALLERY FORMAT
The text comes first and in full page. The images are laid out below in a horizontal line. They are all croped to make them square: an equal amount is removed from each end of the long sides of all photos to make them square. So beware of this when you look at your originals. If your subject is central you are OK but if it is off towards the edge of the photo you will lose it. In this case you must rework the photo in an edit program before submitting it.
If the photos are too small they are thrown away by photo gallery format - note that the thumbnail has disappeared. What this lower limit pixel size is for rejection has not been determined but it is somewhat academic !