[GH-ISSUE #308] Sizes and margins of images in Header and Footer #249

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Originally created by @vic7tar on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/308

Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub.

Hello.
Mr. McNamara, can you add functionality to position and resize images in headers and footers? In Excel VBA, these are the .LeftHeaderPicture, .CenterHeaderPicture … .RightFooterPicture properties of the PageSetup object.

Originally created by @vic7tar on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/jmcnamara/libxlsxwriter/issues/308 Originally assigned to: @jmcnamara on GitHub. Hello. Mr. McNamara, can you add functionality to position and resize images in headers and footers? In Excel VBA, these are the **.LeftHeaderPicture, .CenterHeaderPicture … .RightFooterPicture** properties of the **PageSetup** object.

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@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020):

It is possible to resize a header/footer image but I don't think it is possible to position them. At least I can't see anything in the Excel menus/properties to do that.

However, even though resizing would be possible it isn't something that anyone else has asked for (even in the Perl and Python versions) and it would clutter the API (since it would require 3 lxw_image_options (or similar) pointers for
the 3 header zones. Also, it is relatively easy to just scale the image outside of Libxlsxwriter.

So overall this is a "won't fix" for me. Sorry.

@jmcnamara commented on GitHub (Sep 17, 2020): It is possible to resize a header/footer image but I don't think it is possible to position them. At least I can't see anything in the Excel menus/properties to do that. However, even though resizing would be possible it isn't something that anyone else has asked for (even in the Perl and Python versions) and it would clutter the API (since it would require 3 lxw_image_options (or similar) pointers for the 3 header zones. Also, it is relatively easy to just scale the image outside of Libxlsxwriter. So overall this is a "won't fix" for me. Sorry.