Thank you all for the tips and links, I think this is enough info to make me understand the whole thing, and to make me feel comfortable with it.
Best regards Jaime David Gowers wrote: > In GIMP (and Photoshop, and some other editing software) > it will make it display differently. If your display reports its size > correctly and Dot for Dot is off, the image will display at the > correct size, closely matching the original DPI (of course you do not > get any more actual dots out of this -- it just means that the > relative scale of things is correct). > > It's easy to see this if you halve the DPI for one dimension (eg. so > DPI == 36x72) and then turn off Dot for Dot > >> On a 300dpi device it will >> still display as 1 1/3 in, even if you set the resolution to 70dpi. > > This is true for most simple 'viewing' software, which doesn't scale > the view to be accurate. Not for editors that try to be accurate, such > as GIMP. > > David > _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
