daknecht wrote:
This clears up nothing at all
it seems there is a lot of confusion going on
from what i understand you looked for a solution to your problem and found this tutorial, which i think is actually adding to the confusion
it may have been relevant three years ago, but not today
you start with this post:
daknecht wrote:
I have an image that is 7x8". I opened it in Gimp and changed the resolution so it is displayed as 2x3". I then saved it as png and opened it in Inkscape and the image is still 7x8".
you speak of an image 7x8"
you dont tell us about the dpi, so i assume it must be 300, because you want to print it
7x8" at 300dpi = 2100x2400px
next you want to have it displayed at 2x3", which you try to achieve by changing the resolution
why do you want to change the resolution ? it has to remain at 300dpi for printing !
and whats up with the size: is the aspect ratio changed as well or is that a typo ?
if you scale down the width to 2" the height changes accordingly to 2,287", not 3"
daknecht wrote:
This is not true. The screen is 72 dpi.
this is a common misconception which is explained in the link Odin already gave you:
http://photo.net/learn/resize/i really dont see the problem, images can be scaled in Gimp and you shouldnt scale anything other than vectorimages in Inkscape, because thats what it was made for
if you want to make some of your stuff in Inkscape (e.g: personally i find working with text in IS much more comfortable) use your actual Gimp-pagesize at 300dpi in the correct pixelsize for your IS document properties
lets say you want to create a page A4 for print
so you setup your canvas-size as 2480x3508px (at 300dpi !) in Gimp
do your vectorstuff in Inkscape, then export as a bitmap with the pixelsize as above (page)
resolution doesnt matter
then import that image as a layer in Gimp