On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 11:34:24PM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 05:00:49PM -0500, Zachary Beane wrote: > > now. Rather than the current system of "measure this item onscreen > > and enter the figure from your ruler" to calculate DPI, I think it > > would be more userfriendly to have the shape of some common object > > that you could stretch to fit. For example, you could select A4 > > paper, place the top of a sheet against the monitor, and stretch or > > shrink the virtual outline until it fits the physical outline. That > > would give a pretty decent measurement, I think > > IMHO (I have thought about this before) the perfect object is a CD > There is nowhere in the world which does not have CDs, they are always > the same size to within mm and they are perfectly round, so they can > easily be used to check that your circles are circular _if_ that is > what you want (cheap screens will distort things too badly for this to > be worth attempting). I'm concerned about a CD because I have an anti-glare coating that almost certainly would be marred by pressing a CD against it. It is one of the few universal standards we could come up with on our #gimp brainstorm though (double-a batteries being another :). > I'm too busy to do anything about it though, so if a piece of A4 paper > floats your goat, go for it! It's about time the Americans finally > caught up to the 20th century and went metric anyway... Well, A4 was hypothetical. Perhaps it could have a number of standard objects (A4 paper, US Letter paper, CD) that you could choose from to do your sizing. Are credit cards of a standard size? Zach -- xach@xxxxxxxx Zachary Beane http://www.xach.com/
