Re: factor=fit images don't fit

[Giuseppe Bilotta <gip.bilotta@iol.it>]

Sunday, July 22, 2007 Hans Hagen wrote:

> the fit assumes operating on a page not in a box;

Ah, didn't know that. I couldn't even tell from the sources,
since it uses enclosing box dimensions and not page or paper
sizes. I suspect the logic is broken at the page level too
though, let me explain why.

Currently, if I understand the code correctly, factor=fit
expands the figure to have its major direction fit, while
factor=max expands the figure to have its minor direction
fit.

Instead, the behavior I would expect from fit (resp. max) is
for the *expansion ratio* to be the minimum (resp. maximum)
of the expansion ratios in the two directions (not the sizes
in those directions, but the ratio between the sizes of the
figure and the container). The difference is noticeable when
the container and contained have different aspect ratios.

Consider for example a 20x30mm figure in a 50x150mm page
(strange numbers, just used to show what I mean): with the
current code, using 'fit' would consider the largest
dimension (30) and thus calculate a factor of 150/30 = 5,
but this gives us an image which is 100x150mm, i.e. an image
that doesn't fit! Whereas, if we computed the ratios 50/20 =
2.5 and 150/30 = 5, we would know that the ratio to be
picked was 2.5 in 'fit' and 5 in 'max'.

Or I misintepreting the meaning of 'fit' and 'max'?

>  an alternative is:

> \framed[width=5cm,height4cm]
>   
> {\externalfigure[mill.png][maxwidth=4cm,maxheight=5cm,width=10cm]}

> i.e. setting the maximum values

I hadn't thought about using width and maxwidth (and
maxheight) at the same time, thanks. Of course, I'd rather
have 'fit' and 'max' usable in boxes :)

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

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