Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-09 Thread Clay Leeds
Greetings, On Jun 8, 2004, at 1:55 PM, J.Pietschmann wrote: Darn, the mail server failed yesterday. Resending. And I thought it was just me... Peter B. West wrote: > I think the problem is that pixels are not well-defined. In general, a pixel is an output-dependent unit. On a printer, a pixel m

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-08 Thread Peter B. West
J.Pietschmann wrote: Well, perhaps we should use wording like this in graphics.xml: "FOP always assumes a resolution of 72dpi on encountering pixel measurements, regardless of the output device, and converts all length measured in pixels in millipoints using 1/72 pixels per inch as conversion facto

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-08 Thread J.Pietschmann
Darn, the mail server failed yesterday. Resending. Peter B. West wrote: > I think the problem is that pixels are not well-defined. In general, a pixel is an output-dependent unit. On a printer, a pixel might be 1/2400 inch, on the screen, 1/96". The Recommendation warns about this in 5.9.13.1

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Christian Hattemer
Clay Leeds wrote: > If it's true that graphics measurements specified in INCHES yields > better results than PX, that certainly is news, and would (if > reproducible) warrant special mention on the FOP Graphics page. Can you > also do a test to see if the results are similar if you specify mm a

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Peter B. West
Clay Leeds wrote: On Jun 7, 2004, at 2:13 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote: Christian Hattemer wrote: If it's true that graphics measurements specified in INCHES yields better results than PX, that certainly is news, and would (if reproducible) warrant special mention on the FOP Graphics page. Can you a

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Clay Leeds
On Jun 7, 2004, at 2:13 AM, Chris Bowditch wrote: Christian Hattemer wrote: The images are a bunch of line drawings and other illustrations from a website I converted into DocBook. The DocBook stylesheets include the images like this: So the image dimensions are specified. But it seems the unit "

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Christian Hattemer
Chris Bowditch wrote: > > I was able to work around the object-too-large bug by using a larger page > > size. In the PDF the images have the wrong resolutions and look > > ugly. (Read on, it's a slightly different question than usual) > > Hidding objects that are too large is not necessarily a bu

Re: Image Size Calculations

2004-06-07 Thread Chris Bowditch
Christian Hattemer wrote: Hi, I was able to work around the object-too-large bug by using a larger page size. In the PDF the images have the wrong resolutions and look ugly. (Read on, it's a slightly different question than usual) Hidding objects that are too large is not necessarily a bug. The XSL

Image Size Calculations

2004-06-06 Thread Christian Hattemer
Hi, I was able to work around the object-too-large bug by using a larger page size. In the PDF the images have the wrong resolutions and look ugly. (Read on, it's a slightly different question than usual) The images are a bunch of line drawings and other illustrations from a website I converted i