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DLuna's avatar
DLuna
New member | Level 2
6 years ago

Does anybody know how to scale an image inside a Dropbox Paper TABLE?

I placed a big image inside a table on Paper but can't find a way to scale it down. The image is large and I would like it to be way smaller. If I reduce the column size the image gets cropped. Any suggestions?

  • Hey DLuna, I quickly checked on my end & resizing doesn’t seem to be an available option at the moment. As a temporary workaround, you can scale down the image locally & re-upload it, since the table size is automatically adjusted to your photo ratio. 
     
    Nevertheless, that’s a great idea & I’d happily pass your interest to our Paper engineering team for future iterations. Let me know if you have any further questions or thoughts here & I’ll make sure to check back with you soon. Thanks! 
  • Jane's avatar
    Jane
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    Hey DLuna, I quickly checked on my end & resizing doesn’t seem to be an available option at the moment. As a temporary workaround, you can scale down the image locally & re-upload it, since the table size is automatically adjusted to your photo ratio. 
     
    Nevertheless, that’s a great idea & I’d happily pass your interest to our Paper engineering team for future iterations. Let me know if you have any further questions or thoughts here & I’ll make sure to check back with you soon. Thanks! 
    • Gael_AG's avatar
      Gael_AG
      New member | Level 2

      This is not an acceptable solution it's a waste of time and energy for a basic feature that shoudl be embedded within paper.  If you offer the possibility to add a media, you have to be able to manipulate it and you did it in a way since it0s possible to align text and replace media. I hope you will add the feature soon 

    • SonGokussj4's avatar
      SonGokussj4
      Helpful | Level 5

      This shouldn't be a very big problem but nice feature to have. Please slide it up in priorities. :-) 

      Dropbox Paper is better than it was 2 years ago, I like it more and more. Just 3 things are missing for me:

      - Resize a picture
      - Have a possibility to have wider text-space than now. Current 800?px is just small.
      - When typing code, be able to specify type immediately ```Python <space>

      • Jane's avatar
        Jane
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        All great ideas & thanks for sharing here SonGokussj4! Kindly note that there’s a special area on the Community where all Feature requests are posted called Share an Idea & we encourage both posting & Upvoting (👍) the features that you’d like to see in the future, as these are submitted to  our dev team. 
         
        I‘d happily move your post under this Category, just so as to see if that’s popular among users; please let me know in your next message if you’d like me to proceed with that & I’ll follow-up soon. Thanks again!
  • Kasmenu's avatar
    Kasmenu
    New member | Level 2

    Goodness, just thought I would try Dropbox paper on my iPad, I thought I could open Dropbox, Create a folder on Dropbox , I called it travel share, opened the folder and tried to create a a paper doc.. no such luck.. needed to go out the app and create it from Dropbox paper, “really” anyway did that, then grabbed my first photo from my album it put it on the paper doc but it was too big so tried to grab one of the sides to resize it, no go, tried to pinch it, no go.. “really” this is basic stuff.. deleted the app. Kinder garden stuff.. sad such potential..

    • Jane's avatar
      Jane
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      Hey Kasmenu, sorry to hear that you’re feeling this way; just so as to see if there’s anything at all I can do to help regarding the issue you’ve described us here, would you mind clarifying if you’ve experienced that when working on a table in Paper (i.e. as per the thread’s title) or you just uploaded an image from your Gallery on your iPad? 
       
      While all the thoughts you’re posting us here help us better understand your needs, I’m here to follow-up on your inquiry & further advise on how you can go about what you had in mind initially. I’ll be awaiting your next message & we'll take it from there!

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