I use this code here: https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/scimax-org.el#L957
to provide inline scaling in Emacs when it is not built with imagemagick. Johannes Brauer writes: > Hi! > > If I insert a jpg in my org-mode document, I can preview it but not scale its > width, like so: > > Add the following code to my init.el file: > (setq org-image-actual-width nil) > > Then insert this code in my document, where I want the image to appear: > #+ATTR_ORG: :width 20 > [[./test.jpg]] > > No matter which value I give for the width argument the image appears in the > buffer always in its original size. > > However, scaling for html export with #+attr_html works fine. Export is not the same as the inline scaling. I am not sure what happens with export, but the browser may be doing the scaling. > > What is going wrong? > > (Org-mode version 8.3.4 (8.3.4-99-ga8e4a3-elpa @ > /Users/johannes/Library/Preferences/Aquamacs > Emacs/Packages/elpa/org-20160704/) > > Johannes -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu