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2008 -------
>> ... "DPI" [...] is the ratio between the image dimension in pixels [...]
>> and the image dimension in inches

> This is mostly nonsense. DPI was and is *dots per inch* defining the
> characteristics of an output device

Your forget that for a computer program a screen is an output device and the
dots of this output device are pixels.

For a computer screen ppi = dpi

Microsoft (Windows, Office) X.org (X Window) GNOME (The Gimp) Mozilla Foundation
(Firefox) all use dpi for what you call ppi. 

In the context of a bitmap export (what this issue is about) dpi as printer
resolution makes no sense. Bitmap export is about dpi as ppi (if you prefer the
term). Bitmap image formats label dpi what you call ppi. I'm 99% sure the
original reporter would be very surprised to see you misinterpret his dpi
request as "dpi as printer resolution".

I personally prefer the programs that display it as a pixel/inch value instead
of using user confusing dpi/ppi abbreviations but I've seen enough of them to
recognize what dpi in bitmap export context means.

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