Re: [Gimp-user] Help with Cropping

[Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri gmail com>]

* Rick Strong <rnstrong primus ca> [05-26-17 01:39]:
> This is splitting hairs.
> DPI is the term used by professional graphic designers when speccing for
> print reproduction, even though the "dots" in DPI may be made up of clusters
> of pixels. It harkens back to linescreens.
>
> Rick S.
>
> -----Original Message----- From: Patrick Shanahan
> Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2017 11:41 PM
> To: gimp-user-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Help with Cropping
> ...
>
> > My day to day work for prints for homes is 200 dpi.
>
> Maybe you should rethink.  dpi is a printer term, not a quality term for
> an image.  dpi represents the number of ink dots a printer places on
> paper.  pixels per inch would be a measure of quality of an image.
> -- 
> (paka)Patrick Shanahan       Plainfield, Indiana, USA


then perhaps you should describe using correct terms so understanding is
more definitive.  even adobe now uses the correct terms when describing
cropping on their web-site.

and then users incorrectly describing their problems would have a better
understanding and start providing better descriptions leading to better
and/or more precise solutions.

a white horse is not black even though it is just the hair, or could that
be called splitting

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