Hello You can't do it with Gimp 1.0 but you can do it with the developers version of Gimp i.e Gimp 1.1.x . A work around is to calculate it your self (described in the PrePress Chapter). Say e.g that you want 210ppi res in a 4"x4" image. Then you should create a 840x840 pixels image in Gimp. Cheers Olof S Kylander -- Olof Kylander Frozenriver Digital Design http://www.frozenriver.nu Consultant at Sigma nBiT Technical writer and coauthor of GUM (the Gimp User Manual) On Tue, 23 Nov 1999, Koot wrote: > I am new to these lists, and it is interesting to see how much energy is wasted > on something totally irrelevant to the subject i.e. get terrence of the list > ;-) > My question is, if I ask a question, will it receive the same amount of > attention? Or should I ask; will it receive the same amount of devotion? > If it does, then surely I must get an answer to my question. > > So what is my question? > How do I create an graphic with a higher dpi than the default 72 (or more > accurate ppi?), and save it as an tiff file, not a postscript file? > The Gimp manual suggest saving the file as a ps, but I would prefer using tiff > format at this stage (still learning so one step at a time) > Then also, if I want to do a poster (with a higher dpi than 72), following the > suggestion in the Gimp manual, Gimp creates a huge file, and doing anything > useful with Gimp becomes impossible. > > Thanks a lot > > (I am sending this to both the user and developer list, as I am not sure where > the terrence thing originated from :-)) > > >
