On 29 Jan 2003, Lars Clausen wrote: > On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, ed hunter wrote: >> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 08:35:15AM -0600, Lars Clausen wrote: >>> On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Leonardo Javier Bel�n wrote: >>> > In the mean time, a thing that really drives me crazy is the fact >>> > that, when I need to print know the diagram in specially big paper >>> > (using a sort of plotter) I, according with the printer's, need to >>> > give them a raster image, so I try to give them .pngs, in which the >>> > resolution is 96x96, which is clearly unsufficient, so how can I >>> > change that value?. >>> >>> In 0.90, you are asked for the size of the PNG when you export. Just >>> set this up to however much you need. >> >> I think he means *resolution*. The printers need to know it (or at least >> are accustomed to think in these terms, which is the same :-) > > Oh, I see. I guess when the size is changed, the resolution ought to > change correspondingly. The 96x96 resolution is actually just an > arbitrary libpng default that has nothing to do with what we write. We > do 20 DPCM, i.e. 50 DPI, by default. We should change the resolution > setting to fit the scaling. Please file us a bug report so we don't > forget.
Looked into it, and it was real easy to fix. Won't change the dialog to allow resolution setting rather than pixel setting just now. The default is indeed 50 DPI. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia
