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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It is likely the difference in assumed resolution HTML=screen, you viewing in image viewer=screen and RenderX putting into a PDF an image with intrinsic (meaning not real, actual) dimensions. My guess would be that the image in PDF is 120/96 times larger (1.25). RenderX uses 120 dpi resolution for images when no actual information exists in the image that specifies actual image size. Windows applications use 96 dpi to calculate this information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>You could just use image dimensions on the external-graphic to force size – set content-width and content-height to the exact size you want.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Or try scaling down by 1/1.25 = 80%<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Kevin Brown<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>RenderX<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Rhonda Fitzgerald [mailto:rfitzger@progress.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 13, 2012 10:37 AM<br><b>To:</b> martin.vanrappard@emc.com; xep-support@renderx.com; kevin@renderx.com<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Images in PDFs are being enlarged<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Here is what is being written to the topic.fo file:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><fo:block id="" margin-left="auto"><fo:inline id="image_vx1_2x4_sf"><fo:external-graphic src="url(file:/C:/output_generator/progress/temp/19.1334337182392/content/authoring/rfi1332788407953.image)"/></fo:inline></fo:block><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The image source file is actually a .jpg file that is imported into my CMS (IXASOFT DITA CMS). IXIASOFT gives all images in the CMS a .image extension. No scaling attribute has been applied to the image in the DITA topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So, if I look at the .image file (attached) in Paint Shop Pro (rename it as a .jpg file, first), the size of the image is correct and what I would expect to see in the PDF output. This is the image that was copied down to the temp folder and is the image being used during the DITA OT processing. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>But, in the PDF (also attached) the image file is enlarged. All of the images in this file have this problem, but this particular image is on page 5.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So, the dimensions of the image in the PDF are larger than the source image. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>My other output formats (ie: HTML) not using XEP do not have this problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Rhonda<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:martin.vanrappard@emc.com">martin.vanrappard@emc.com</a> [<a href="mailto:martin.vanrappard@emc.com">mailto:martin.vanrappard@emc.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, April 13, 2012 9:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com">xep-support@renderx.com</a><br><b>Cc:</b> Rhonda Fitzgerald<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: Images in PDFs are being enlarged<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Did you check the FO output to see if perhaps scaling (width and height) attributes are added or used somewhere? Or not used, perhaps?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Also, what type of images? JPG, PNG, GIF, …?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com">xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a> [<a href="mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com">mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Rhonda Fitzgerald<br><b>Sent:</b> 13 April 2012 15:27<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xep-support@renderx.com">xep-support@renderx.com</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] Images in PDFs are being enlarged<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I am using XEP (Version 4.19 build 20110414) to generate PDF using the DITA OT v1.5.4. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>When I generate PDF, the images in the PDF are enlarged. They are definitely larger than the source files that are being reference in my DITA XML topics. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any pointers on why this is be happening?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="96%" style='width:96.86%'><tr><td valign=top style='background:white;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Rhonda Fitzgerald</span><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>