Nothing is actually done to the image when you resize it in the Help+Manual editor. Your original source image file is not changed at all, and is never changed. Any processing is only performed on publishing. How resized images are handled on publishing depends on the output format:
WebHelp, ePUB, Kindle and eWriter: Export images with original dimensions
The images are exported with their original native dimensions when you publish to to these formats. Instead of physically resizing the image, Help+Manual simply adjusts the display size of the image. Modern browsers and eBook viewers do an excellent job of scaling and this provides much better quality for responsive images on high-resolution devices.
HTML Help/CHM: Original images or physical resizing
Help+Manual generates fully scalable pages for CHM output if you activate the setting Make CHM file compatible with high-resolution monitors in . Then the original images are exported in exactly the same way as for WebHelp, along with a scaling setting. If you turn this option off the images are physically resized to the target dimensions during the publishing process.
PDF and DOCX: Export images with original dimensions
Images exported to these formats are handled in the same way as WebHelp. The image is exported with its full original dimensions along with a scaling command that controls its display dimensions on the page, in accordance with your image dimensions settings. Here too, this gives you better quality for zooming and printing if you insert an image with native dimensions larger than those of the display dimensions.
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