Re: Importing Images: Default "incorrect" scaling of images

[Michael Ross <michael e ross gmail com>]

Jay,

The outline of a "Page" if you show the page breaks is the paper size minus the margins.  So a lettersize 8.5 x 11 with one inch margins will have page breaks that are 6.5 x 9 apart.  If you look at the cm rulers and convert to inches (2.54 cm = 1 in) you will see the correspondence.  Centimeters aside if you are a US customary unit user, the nice thing about this is you can work on the array of pages and know just how the printing will break out on multiple sheets, and you can change the view scale and put an entire diagram on one sheet without worrying about the margins - just stay within the page breaks.   You could say that this method of display absolves us of looking a a bunch non-printing, space wasting, white space between sheets. 

Here is a little walk through:  Set your zoom to 100%, and go to the File/Page Setup.  Set it to Letter size , Landscape, and Scale to 100%.  Set the top and left margins to 0.0in, set the bottom margin to 0.5in, and the right to 2.0in.  You will see the the cm rulers correspond to and 8in by 9 inch working area.  Tweak the Scale to see what that does.  If you leave the scale at 100% and change the zoom level you will see the rulers track the size of the page that was setup.  If you make the scale 200% you will see that this scales the diagram up to double size and the rulers agree with this.  50% makes the diagram half size.

Been following this list for a long time and AFAIK no one has had your particular request about image sizing (please don't be too incredulous ??? that it doesn't work the way you want - you just showed up, and you are welcome to tweak the software to get it to do what you want).  Please keep in mind this is a volunteer effort and you get what you pay for.

A workaround for you is to know the absolute size of your images coming in and expand them by hand so the size, as measured in centimeters, gets you the 300dpi just as you like it.

The system is a bit more fluid and therefore more broadly useful than the system you envision where there are numbers applied to an incoming image.  You will find that the images reproduce nicely as you change their size which has always been happy making for me at least.

If you can make a strong case for the enhancements you want to be developed (make the case that a lot of people will benefit from it), or intrigue a developer to do it for fun, you may get the function you want.  Or it may actually be possible now and I simple don't know it - maybe a less ignorant person will chime in if that is so.

mike

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