No worries.  I meant no offense by the word "hack": sometimes the 
simplest approach is the best, and obviously it worked just fine for a 
long time.  It seems newer versions of pdflatex are starting to care 
about the dpi metadata...

Mike

Gary Ruben wrote:
> Just saw this thread and thought I should explain that this was indeed a 
> hack by me which was aimed to do exactly what Michael said. I never 
> thought there'd be any side effects from doing this - it's interesting 
> that pdfLaTeX balks because it has never done so for me. Anyway, thanks 
> Michael for addressing this.
>
> Gary R.
>
> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>   
>> Ok, I have a better fix in SVN r8300.  imsave now accepts a "dpi" kwarg 
>> (default of 100) to set the DPI metadata in the file.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>> Michael Droettboom wrote:
>>     
>>> You're right.  Thanks for the sanity check.
>>>
>>> What's happening is that when using imsave is used, it generates a 
>>> figure image with a dpi of 1 (to force 1 output pixel per input pixel), 
>>> but this is sort of a hack.  Let me see if I can find a way around this 
>>> hack.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>       
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