Hello David,
Thank you for the excellent question, If there is only the one image that needs to be exported, you can always use the Edit content tool and right click the image to save the image itself our of the document directly:
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This will allow you to save the image directly in its original format, without recompressing or any of that other business.
Beyond that, unfortunately I do not believe this is possible to implement due to the fact that this is only one piece of information on a single piece of the page content that we would need to look for, out of a massive possible selection, even without looking at the problem cases below.
What would happen if, for example, the user had added more than one image into a page, each with a different DPI, how would we decide which one to base the option off of? Alternatively when there is a selection of content that does not have a DPI at all, like comments? What if a page was added and there is nothing at all that stores a DPI value whatsoever, would we just assume a default low resolution option in this case?
Even if we assume that the user is making no changes to the document, there are a number of scanners our that that when scanning to the PDF format will create a document with a group of images to save space, one of these might be a "background image" with a very low DPI, but consisting of nothing but the color white, while there is a full color image at 1200 dpi because it needs to be pretty, and a paragraph of text at 600 dpi.
In my eyes, there are simply too many variables to create a feature like this and have it work consistently in all cases. I will certainly mention this among my colleagues to see what their thoughts are, but will not be creating a feature request at this time.
Kind regards,
