Attached Images Render Out of XY Scale

[rfd]

Attachment images are not XY scaled properly I couldn't find any info about allowed image sizes. I tried different image widths but all are re-edited by the forum software and distorted. Looks like a problem with how this forum's image attachment software is set. Attached images look fine during a preview but are skewed once the post is saved, just as with the image I attached to this post.

[dave77]

I can't speak as to why images are sometimes distorted but if you right click on it and open it in a new tab it will display properly.

[GunnyGene]

I dunno. I kinda like the looks of it. It would sure draw some attention at a range.

[rfd]

This image skewing should be able to be adjusted within the forum software admin panel.

[Mags]

Attachment images are not XY scaled properly I couldn't find any info about allowed image sizes. I tried different image widths but all are re-edited by the forum software and distorted. Looks like a problem with how this forum's image attachment software is set. Attached images look fine during a preview but are skewed once the post is saved, just as with the image I attached to this post.

Yes this a well known problem. There are several at length posts about this in years past. It's not uncommon with other forums as well that use phpBB software for their websites. Digging into the admin tools for the SW there aren't any adjustment setting to fix this. I did debug the source code quite a while back and found what what causing it, but phpBB wasn't interested. There is or was a 3rd party patch. But being a 3rd party patch, every time phpBB did a feature or security update the patch would be overwritten and have to be re-installed. The consensus here has been to live with it and use the "right click on it and open it in a new tab" browser function to view the picture correctly.

[rfd]

I'm extremely familiar with forum software and have constructed and run more than a few large forums, one has over 43k members with millions of posts and is quite active.

Not allowing images to be displayed proportionally is beyond ridiculous, it's plain stupid and does a disservice to the forum. Literally, a joke.

phpBB has never been good software, and worse yet since it's not free..

That images can't be displayed in proportion using paid software is, well, you know.

I'd strongly suggest moving the Henry forum over to the free SMF software.

[daytime dave]

I'm extremely familiar with forum software and have constructed and run more than a few large forums, one has over 43k members with millions of posts and is quite active.

Not allowing images to be displayed proportionally is beyond ridiculous, it's plain stupid and does a disservice to the forum. Literally, a joke.

phpBB has never been good software, and worse yet since it's not free..

That images can't be displayed in proportion using paid software is, well, you know.

I'd strongly suggest moving the Henry forum over to the free SMF software.

This is the only one I knew anything about when I made the forum. I don't know that much about it either. If anyone knows someone who could facilitate a move to something better that won't cost me too much, let me know.

[rfd]

I just registered on the pbpBB website and will look into this image aspect ratio problem.

[rfd]

I'm extremely familiar with forum software and have constructed and run more than a few large forums, one has over 43k members with millions of posts and is quite active.

Not allowing images to be displayed proportionally is beyond ridiculous, it's plain stupid and does a disservice to the forum. Literally, a joke.

phpBB has never been good software, and worse yet since it's not free..

That images can't be displayed in proportion using paid software is, well, you know.

I'd strongly suggest moving the Henry forum over to the free SMF software.

This is the only one I knew anything about when I made the forum. I don't know that much about it either. If anyone knows someone who could facilitate a move to something better that won't cost me too much, let me know.

What is the pbpBB release of this forum's software? I'm very surprised it's not listed at the bottom of every page.

As an Admin for this forum, when you enter the Admin control panel and enter the post attachments menu, what are all the switches available to set?

[Mags]

...Not allowing images to be displayed proportionally is beyond ridiculous, it's plain stupid and does a disservice to the forum....

Yup. I tried that 'disservice argument. The member consensus back then was to leave it be. Attached is a copy of the admin guide.

phpBB_3.0-Administration_Guide.pdf

For what's it's worth, phpBB uses two different web part image containers between 'preview' and 'post'. In preview the xy aspect ratio in the HTML code is coded to autosize the container to the image. In post, it's coded to force the images to fit the container, stretching and compressing x-y to do so.