Austin Franklin wrote:
>
> > The only dimensions that matter are the number of pixels. The dpi and
> > hence the "physical dimensions" are utterly meaningless.
>
> That's erroneous to say they are 'utterly meaningless'. They CLEARLY are
> utterly meaningFUL to the printer driver, and, along with the xy number of
> pixels, determine the printed size of the image.
Here we go again... ;-)
I don't know about anyone else, but I understood exactly what was being
said here.
Not only that, but I stated this in a post about a week ago. Laurie said
the same thing,
although it appears some people might have misunderstood him, which was
why I originally
stepped into this.
Part of my post below:
> Changing the image size in Photoshop without checking the
> "resample" box, does absolutely nothing to the file outside of
> Photoshop. It is an internal function that simply changes the display
> within Photoshop, and how Photoshop sees the size of the image relative
> to the screen presentation and the printed size. You will find outside
> of photoshop, you still have the same file size image, and the image
> will appear in whatever the dimensions the other program uses as a
> default. For instance, if you are using web graphics, the image will be
> displayed at the nominal 72 or 86 or 90 dpi (depending on your screen
> resolution) and will expand to accommodate that dpi, based upon the
> pixel dimensions of the image.
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