Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: The image format is TIFF and the pixel distance is specified in the TIFF header. I understand here "distance" as "resolution". Something like an image in which the x-dimension of a pixel is 1 metre and the y-dimension of the pixel is set to be 1.5 metre. Exactly.

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 02:01 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Nikos Alexandris schrieb: > > > I am interested in this statement... > > Could you please extent a bit or give some pointers? > > This is now a bit off-topic. Once and a while it doesn't hurt :-) > I maintain at work a scanning electron mic

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Nikos Alexandris schrieb: I am interested in this statement... Could you please extent a bit or give some pointers? This is now a bit off-topic. I maintain at work a scanning electron microscope (SEM). Due to technical reasons the distance between the pixels in x-direction is different from t

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Nikos Alexandris
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 22:08 +0100, Uwe Stöhr wrote: > Perhaps the distance between the pixels is different. This "feature" > is for example possible woth > TIFF images. Uwe, I am interested in this statement. I work everyday with georeferenced rasters (where distance has a meaning, i.e. you set

Re: dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Hubert Christiaen schrieb: I am converting a scientific wikibook to a full PDF by passing over TeX and Lyx. But some pictures suddenly show much bigger than in the wiki version. One 600 px width image just fits on the page and another is 600 px image has to be reduced to 60% to fit on the page

dimensions of pictures

2009-02-16 Thread Hubert Christiaen
I am converting a scientific wikibook to a full PDF by passing over TeX and Lyx. But some pictures suddenly show much bigger than in the wiki version. One 600 px width image just fits on the page and another is 600 px image has to be reduced to 60% to fit on the page. I find this quite strange.