Re: image defaults

From: Arnaud Calvo (arnaud@calvo-france.com)
Date: Wed Sep 06 2000 - 23:46:41 PDT

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    On 06-Sep-2000 Stephen Williams wrote:

    >> "The best hope, though, is to find the natural resolution of the
    >> scanner, and scan at that resolution." How can I find that ?
    >
    > Lucky guess, I think. The information consumers get from their scanners
    > is pretty darn close to useless. However, some scanner specifications
    > give an "optical" resolution. If yours does, that is the magic number.

    It's written "optical resolution : 600dpi x 1200dpi".
    So I should scan at 600 ?

    > arnaud@calvo-france.com said:
    >> What's the difference beetween "scale" and "resize"
    >
    > In gimp, "Scale" changes the size of the image by scaling the picture, and
    > "Resize" changes the size of the image by clipping or padding.

    Thank you.
    In fact, I used to call the scale function "resize", and the resize function
    "clip" ;-)))

    -- 
    Arnaud Calvo <arnaud@calvo-france.com>
    49240 Avrillé
    

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