i routinely clip notes from a web site that has small images of various sizes, and i like the snippet view, because it lets me quickly identify notes by the thumbnail image. but the fact that evernote displays some of the images, but not others, has always bugged me. last year, i created a topic on the subject here:
no one from evernote ever responded.
well, i've finally identified the bug:
if either the horizontal or vertical size of an image is less than 75 pixels, snippet view ignores that image and will not display a thumbnail.
the fact that 75 pixels is the cut-off suggested this was a programming decision, and i now see that the snippet view thumbnails are in fact 75x75 pixels. but by eliminating smaller images, you've arbitrarily defeated the purpose (i.e., one of the features) of the snippet view! as such, i still consider this a bug, because many notes that do in fact contain images are displayed without them, and that's undesirable behavior.
suggestions:
- how about the option (as a preference) to have smaller images scaled up, just enough for them to be displayed in the 75x75 thumbnail? in my experimentation, i took an image that was 110x74 and scaled it up by one pixel -- and it displayed properly. i also did the same with a much smaller image; scaled it up to 75 pixels, and, though less crisp, it served the purpose. i'd much rather have a somewhat aliased thumbnail, generated from a smaller image, than no thumbnail at all, which is what we currently have.
- another option would be to have evernote, in these instances, draw a light gray, 75x75 square box and display smaller images within the box. ultimately this option may be less elegant (i.e., the results would be less consistent). but again, seeing something would be better than seeing nothing.
i hope you'll improve snippet view by addressing this issue.
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i routinely clip notes from a web site that has small images of various sizes, and i like the snippet view, because it lets me quickly identify notes by the thumbnail image. but the fact that evernote displays some of the images, but not others, has always bugged me. last year, i created a topic on the subject here:
no one from evernote ever responded.
well, i've finally identified the bug:
if either the horizontal or vertical size of an image is less than 75 pixels, snippet view ignores that image and will not display a thumbnail.
the fact that 75 pixels is the cut-off suggested this was a programming decision, and i now see that the snippet view thumbnails are in fact 75x75 pixels. but by eliminating smaller images, you've arbitrarily defeated the purpose (i.e., one of the features) of the snippet view! as such, i still consider this a bug, because many notes that do in fact contain images are displayed without them, and that's undesirable behavior.
suggestions:
- how about the option (as a preference) to have smaller images scaled up, just enough for them to be displayed in the 75x75 thumbnail? in my experimentation, i took an image that was 110x74 and scaled it up by one pixel -- and it displayed properly. i also did the same with a much smaller image; scaled it up to 75 pixels, and, though less crisp, it served the purpose. i'd much rather have a somewhat aliased thumbnail, generated from a smaller image, than no thumbnail at all, which is what we currently have.
- another option would be to have evernote, in these instances, draw a light gray, 75x75 square box and display smaller images within the box. ultimately this option may be less elegant (i.e., the results would be less consistent). but again, seeing something would be better than seeing nothing.
i hope you'll improve snippet view by addressing this issue.
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