Re: [Gimp-user] GIMP ignores dpi?

[Mark Bourne <gimp-users mbourne spamgourmet com>]

Phillip Susi wrote:
> If I create an image and double the dpi to 180, GIMP shows it in the
> same size at 100% zoom as if I hadn't doubled the dpi.  Isn't this a
> bug?  Doubling the dpi ( and keeping the same resolution ) should make
> it display at half the size.

DPI is pretty much irrelevant for displaying on screen. 100% zoom 
displays each pixel in the image as one pixel on screen. If you were to 
print the image, you should find that doubling the DPI does lead to the 
image printing at half the size.

Mark.