From: Sven Neumann <neumanns@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 03:18:53 +0100 Don't underestimate the importance of the resolution info for the print plugin. The following task may not be very professional, but it is certainly something the average gimp user does frequently: Scan in an image, retouch it, collage it, whatever, then print it. When doing this with gimp-1.1.x all parts of the data stream support the resolution information. The scanner plug-in uses it, the application gives you the necessary infos in realsize units, you may even save and load your image in between in a variety of formats. But when you choose to print the image, that information carried along all the way is useless, since it is simply ignored. We have added the image resolution in 1.1 only to make Gimp better suited for printed graphics. CYMK support is still missing, but I thought we'd at least manage to integrate the resolution info completely. I must admit I hadn't quite thought in these terms (my experience has been in layout and photography, where absolute size is typically less important). I still think it's lower in absolute priority than some of the other stuff, like other printers (because there's a workaround to one and not to the other), but you've given me something to think about here. I'm still not convinced that this is the best way to handle printing resolution, since the desired printing resolution depends on a lot of things, some of which are very printer specific. But if that's the approach chosen we should try to accommodate ourselves to it. I'm still very reluctant to make this kind of change in 3.0, absent clarification on 1.2 release status. -- Robert Krawitz <rlk@xxxxxxxxxxxx> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/ Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2 Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail lpf@xxxxxxxxxxxx Project lead for The Gimp Print -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton
