Option to keep aspect ratio when scaling pictures

If I place a picture object on the report and change the size or scaling I woul like to have an option to keep the original aspect ratio. I've seen other products that have this feature. I use the ole object with a graphic location value (from DB field) so different pictures may appear based on data. Unfortunately the original pictures are not all the same size so pictures end up skewed when trying to fit.

I meant for this to be in feature request thread. Not sure how to move it there or atleast delete it.

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