This is getting into a pretty complex realm. I hope what follows is
useful rather than rant...
On 6 Feb 2007, at 13:16, David Bovill wrote:
There are lots of time when you need to make these calculations - due
usually to information or interfaces provided by other software (often
defined
No thanks a lot for the info!
In simple terms I have a piece of graphing software which I can
control in various ways - one is to set the size of the resulting
image. The image will be scaled proportionally to fit into this
size. Now the size is in inches so you can basically pass the
programme
With all the DPI, PPI, and LPI we forgot the beloved twips. Fortunately
there's little to learn at the moment on that since they're going away:
http://visualbasic.about.com/cs/visualbasicfaq/a/dykpixeltwip.htm
We'll miss them. :)
Resolution independence is a big hairy mess. Useful, but a mess
