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help system Piers Cornwell <piers.cornwell@bigfoot.com> who has taken the burden to continue this project Karin and Olof started. --Sven
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2.4 KiB
HTML
57 lines
2.4 KiB
HTML
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
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<HTML>
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<HEAD>
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<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<TITLE>Prefernces / New File</TITLE>
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</HEAD>
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<BODY text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#0000FF" vlink="#FF0000" alink="#000088">
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<TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1">
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<TR bgcolor="black">
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<TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT size="+2" color="white">New File</FONT></TD>
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</TR>
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<TR bgcolor="white" >
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<TD width="100%" align="left"><P>
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<H4>
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Image Size and Unit
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</H4>
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<P>
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The top fields will allow you to set the size in pixels and the bottom field
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will allow you to set the size in a arbitrary length unit. The difference
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between the two of them is that if you specify the the size in e.g inches
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then the size in pixels is dependent of the image resolution. I.e if you
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decrease the default resolution you will decrease the size in pixels but
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not the real size measured in e.g inches.
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<H4>
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Image Resolution and Resolution Unit
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</H4>
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<P>
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Let you set the default image resolution and resolution unit. The default
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image resolution is always measured in dpi (ppi) while the default resolution
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type is arbitrary. However Gimp lets you set the default resolution in your
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arbitrary resolution unit in the two bottom fields.
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<H4>
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Image Type
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</H4>
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<P>
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Lets you set what type of image you want to create by default either RGB
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or Grayscale.
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<H4>
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Summary
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<P>
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Does the size & unit contra resolution image/unit sound a bit complicated
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and hard to understand? Let us give you an example. You are familiar with
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the metric system but as most designers you are more familiar with a resolution
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based on pixels per inch (ppi or dpi). Then you have to set image unit to
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millimeters (or centimeters) while you will set the resolution unit to
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pixels/inch. This will give you the comfort of working with two familiar
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units in this case size measured in the metric system and resolution measured
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in ppi. As default values that you have to set i.e size in this case millimeters
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and the resolution in ppi is up to you and what type of work you are involved
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in.
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<P>
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<A href="index.html">Index</A>
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</TD>
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</TR>
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</TABLE>
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</BODY></HTML>
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