Re: also struggling with a dpi question
- From: dj_nme <dj_nme@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 02:24:27 +1000
DBLEXPOSURE wrote:
"Cinder Lane" <Cinderlane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:25070-46E9B289-357@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
If the editor says he wants a 300 dpi photo, what he means is that he
wants a PRINT (paper) that had been printed with a resolution of 300
dots per inch.
An image submitted electronically or by disk does not possess a
dots-per-inch property; it has a TOTAL-width pixel count and a
TOTAL-height pixel count.
You are about half correct.
Some people live in a pixel dimension world and others live in a inches or centimeters world. The inches and centimeter people need to specify what DPI they are working in when they ask for a particular size image.
It is a confusing request to ask for a 300ppi image without specifying the size in inches or centimeters.
We could also discuss picas and points if you want...
Or, to be even more confusing, "mils" which are thousandths of an inch and (definitely) not millimetres (thousandths of a metre).
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