Hi Pere Thanks for the suggestion!
It's a good idea but I see messing with uncompressed project files and custom scripts as a last resort. I'm hoping there is an easier, existing GUI way to insert an image into a cell or that the existing process will be improved. On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Pere Pujal i Carabantes < [email protected]> wrote: > El dj 12 de 11 de 2015 a les 00:01 +0000, en/na Dan MacDonald va > escriure: > > Hi gnumeric devs! > > > > I'd like to create a spreadsheet that would make quite heavy use of > > images. > > The images will only be small (say 100x100 pixels or so) but I will > > need to > > import quite a lot of them and on a regular basis. > > > > As it stands, this is the process I need to go through to import each > > new > > image: > > > > * Select and resize a row/cell to make the importing and resizing > > easier > > * Insert -> Image > > * Browse to and open desired image > > * Place the image into the desired cell and resize it to fit > > * Right-click on the image -> Size & Position > > * Change 'Move with cells' property to 'Move and resize with cells' > > * Click 'Apply' and then 'Cancel' to close Size & Position options > > window > > > > Is there not a faster way to achieve this? Is it just me that would > > prefer > > that all imported images defaulted to be set to 'Move and resize with > > cells'? That seems like the most useful setting for images to me. > > > > Ideally, when importing an image into a cell I wouldnt have to > > manually > > position, resize or change the properties of an imported image. The > > image > > would be bound to the currently selected cell and it would be resized > > and > > centred to fit the cell as best it can as a 'Move and resize with > > cell' > > image type. Is there any reason this isn't the default behaviour? > > > > As an extension to this, it would also be very handy if gnumeric > > could > > batch import images into a selected range of cells. Maybe I should > > log this > > as a feature request? > > > Just an idea, insert one image and save the spreedshet. > Uncompress the spreedsheet(it is a gzip file) and study if you can > arrive to develop a shell/python/perl/whatever script to insert a bunch > of images automagically. > > Best > Pere > > > > > > Thanks for your help and the great spreadsheet! > > > > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > > gnumeric-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnumeric-list >
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