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Inserting, Editing, Saving Bitmaps Images

Inserting Bitmaps

A bitmap image can be inserted in LibreOffice Writer, LibreOffice Calc, LibreOffice Draw and LibreOffice Impress documents.

1. Choose Insert - Image.

2. Select the file. In the \<emph\>File type\</emph\> box you can restrict the selection to certain file types.

4. Click the \<emph\>Link\</emph\> box if you want a link to the original file.

   If the \<emph\>Link\</emph\> box is marked, whenever the document is updated and loaded the bitmap image is reloaded. The editing steps that you have carried out in the local copy of the image in the document are re-applied and the image is displayed.

   If the \<emph\>Link\</emph\> box is not marked, you are always working with the copy created when the graphic was first inserted.

   To embed graphics that were first inserted as links, go to \<emph\>Edit - Links\</emph\> and click the \<emph\>Break Link\</emph\> button.

5. Click \<emph\>Open\</emph\> to insert the image.

Editing Bitmaps

Icons on the Image bar

When you select the bitmap image, the Image Bar offers you the tools for editing the image. Only a local copy is edited in the document, even if you have inserted an image as a link.

A number of filters are located on the Image Filter toolbar, which you can open with the icon on the Image Bar.

The original picture file will not be changed by the filters. Filters are applied to a picture only inside the document.

Some of the filters open a dialog, which you can use to select, for example, the intensity of the filter. Most filters can be applied multiple times to increase the filter effect.

The Image dialog

1. Right-click the image and choose Image from the submenu to open a properties dialog.

2. Change the properties of the selected image, then click OK.

Saving Bitmaps

If you want to save in a format such as GIF, JPEG or TIFF, you must select and export the bitmap image. This is only possible in LibreOffice Draw and LibreOffice Impress.

To export a bitmap in Draw or Impress:

1. Select the bitmap image. You can also select additional objects, such as text, to be exported with the image by pressing the shift key while selecting or by opening a selection frame around all objects.

2. Choose \<emph\>File - Export\</emph\>. The \<emph\>Export\</emph\> dialog opens.

   The \<emph\>Export\</emph\> command writes the picture with all applied filter effects to a file. The \<emph\>Save as Picture\</emph\> command in the context menu saves the picture without any filter effects, if the picture was inserted as a linked picture. An embedded picture will always be saved or exported with filters applied.

3. In the \<emph\>File format\</emph\> field, select the file format you want, for example GIF or JPEG.

4. If you only want to export the selected objects, mark the \<emph\>Selection\</emph\> box.

   If \<emph\>Selection\</emph\> is not marked, the entire page of the document is exported.

5. Enter a name for the file and click \<emph\>Export\</emph\>.

To export a bitmap in Writer: Right-click the bitmap, choose Save Graphics. You see the Image Export dialog. Enter a file name and select a file type.