On 03/27/14 22:22, Tim wrote: <>
When you mis-set the DPI, you lose the ability for applications to show "actual size" objects. Such as graphics designers, or desktop publishers, who want to design something with real-world measurements (i.e. centimeters, not pixels), and have the program show it at life size on their monitor. Which it can do, when DPI is set right, as the physical size of the monitor screen is known, the pixels across and down it, and what DPI it uses.
i do not know what correlations of 'dots per' are in centimeters, but i do know that with what they are in inches. in inches, dpi does not lend towards getting "actual size", only close, as in horse shoes, hand grenade, and nuclear bombs. only way one can get close is to adjust height and width controls, and then, unless one has laid out some huge amount of money for monitor, i doubt that screen will be linear in vertical or in horizontal. -- peace out. in a world with out fences, who needs gates. tc.hago. g . -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
