High resolution screen-shots

Markku Kolkka markkuk at tuubi.net
Sat Jun 17 16:03:11 UTC 2006


Jacques B. kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika lauantai, 17. 
kesäkuuta 2006 16:47):
> I acquired the screen
> with the Gimp, saved it as a .tiff file with no compression. 
> I then opened that image and the properties were 1024 x 768,
> with a resolution of 76 X 72 dpi.  Still pretty lame, but a
> bit better.  I read before that for an image to look
> reasonable on screen it only needs a resolution of about 75
> dpi.

Only physical output devices like monitors and printers have dpi 
resolution. The "dpi" value stored in an image file is an 
arbitrary number that has no effect on the image resolution or 
quality. You can use Gimp or some other image editing program to 
set the dpi to whatever you want.

-- 
 Markku Kolkka
 markku.kolkka at iki.fi




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