Improving image resizing in editor

[hengiesel]

@jcznk

I find a bit unwieldy the way Anki does not resize images by default anymore (in the browser, editor etc.)
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It seems to me that the disadvantage encountered by those who desire all images to be shrunk outweighs the advantage gained by those who do like such behaviour

We’d probably never come to a conclusion, which solution benefits the most. There’s a huge amount of people, who only take snapshots of PDFs, put them into Anki then create image occlusions. For them, not shrinking is probably better.

Why I chose to do no-shrinking by default is that it’s less confusing to a new user. That way they can discover the feature by themselves, and use it as they please.

Your use case could still be covered by an add-on though. It would need to:

1. Offer an option to add data-editor-shrink="true" to all images (of a notetype? of a deck?) via Find&Replace.
2. Add data-editor-shrink="true" to all images on paste.

@jcznk

(Also: by adding a new ‘default maximum height for images in the editor’ setting in the Preferences, every user would be able to decide which default image size works best for them)

This could certainly come in the future. At the moment Anki will resize it to fit in a 250x125 rectange. Though it should probably be a noteype option, or even a field option.