On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 at 06:44AM -0700, LRN wrote:
> That said, i've noticed that you're using [scale=.4]. How would it look 
> without scale=.4? The point is that DPI info should allow typesetter to 
> guess image size correctly, and it should look OK without scaling.

Let me admit my ignorance here: for computer-generated raster graphics,
I don't understand what DPI might even *mean*. Let's say I use Sage to
make an images that 500 pixels by 500 pixels. To assign a meaningful
dots-per-inch value, you need to have an idea of how large the image
should appear. That seems ill-defined to me: the monitor I'm using right
now is around 90 dpi; my Nexus S smartphone is 233 dpi. (I'm assume
"dot" = "pixel".) How can Sage know the properties of the physical
display, or what the user wants? Maybe there's some standard or
mechanism that I don't know about, but it seems like this is something
we can't solve for the user.

Dan

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