POI 3.2 Image Height/Width controlling

Question

Using POI version 3.2

Issue: Not able to resize an image to its original height and width. I am able to add an image to the excel file.

After adding image I

Answer 1

I found that you must NOT call picture.resize() until after sheet.autoSizeColumn(i) even if you are not calling autoSizeColumn(i) on the column to which the picture is anchored.

Answer 2

On a HSSFWorkbook with a custom font I did the following to get a logo to be displayed in the right dimensions:

CreationHelper helper = wb.getCreationHelper();
Drawing drawing = sheet.createDrawingPatriarch();
ClientAnchor anchor = helper.createClientAnchor();
anchor.setDx1(LOGO_MARGIN * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);
anchor.setDx2(LOGO_WIDTH_IN_FUNNY_POI_FORMAT * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);
anchor.setDy1(LOGO_MARGIN * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);
anchor.setDy2(LOGO_HEIGHT_IN_FUNNY_POI_FORMAT * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);
drawing.createPicture(anchor, pictureIndex);

Where I set LOGO_HEIGHT... and LOGO_WIDTH.. to the wanted pixel size of the image.

The resulting image was not at its original ratio and not the expected pixel size. So I used the expected size / current size ratio and adjusted LOGO_WIDTH.. and LOGO_HEIGHT.. accordingly. Not beautiful, but it works :/

And don't call Picture.resize() afterwards.

See Apache POIU Bug 52504 or this newsgroup discussion about poi Picture.resize() and POI quick guide for inserting pictures.

Update: current code looks like this, the original image is 2000x450:

LOGO_MARGIN = 2;
int index = getLogoPictureIndex();
CreationHelper helper = this.wb.getCreationHelper();

Drawing drawing = this.sheet.createDrawingPatriarch();
ClientAnchor anchor = helper.createClientAnchor();

anchor.setDx1(LOGO_MARGIN * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);
anchor.setDy1(LOGO_MARGIN * XSSFShape.EMU_PER_PIXEL);

Picture pic = drawing.createPicture(anchor, index);
pic.resize(0.064);

Answer 3

Good solution is to use resize() function with scale argument:

double scale = 0.3;
Picture pict = drawing.createPicture(anchor, pictureIdx);
pict.resize(scale);

Answer 4

Shouldn't you just hold onto the picture object and call resize() very last, after your setcolumnwidth()s are done?