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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: karbon being DPI based (was karbon)
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-10-28 13:32:57
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Ok, I'll stop replying to your messages since I believe we will never 
understand each other.
Let me explain with this last email.

On Tuesday 28 October 2003 13:39, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> >>In the first instance, as you get a higher resolution screen and set X
> >> for a higher resolution, the printout on the paper gets smaller for no
> >> logical reason.
> >
> > If you have 1600x1200 on your 19" monitor; effectively what you are
> > looking at is 100dpi.
> > So if you hold a page in front of your monitor the image is (for
> > instance) 10cm if you print it and it comes out 15, because if konq
> > assumes 72 DPI, you don't like that.
>
> First, Konq does not assume 72 DPI. 

I agree; and that is what I said above. (well tried to anyway)

> Any who, I am looking at a web page on my monitor and:
>
> 1.  If it fits on monitor (width), I expect that it will fit on the width
> of the paper.
> 2.  I do not want for the image to get smaller if I set the resolution in
> X to a higher value.

Pick one; since one excludes the other, having a higher resolution means 
images get smaller on screen and at the same time your X DPI wil also get 
larger.
If you don't like the result; fix the size you told your X server.

> This is not what WYSIWYG means.  What you want if for the width of the
> web page and/or screen to match the width of the paper.  You want to have
> what is on the screen be printed on the paper just like it works with a
> word processor.

You just described that what you see is what you want on your paper; so that 
makes it WYSIWYG.

> However, I'm still not clear on when Qt uses 72 DPI to size images.

Why don't you dig into the sources to find out; emailing about image sizes 
printed from konq does not lead to the answer.
- -- 
Thomas Zander
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