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GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings

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GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings Johnny Rosenberg 04 Dec 19:31
  GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings Ofnuts 04 Dec 20:19
  GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings drc at shadowdrama.net (Ville P 04 Dec 21:31
Johnny Rosenberg
2010-12-04 19:31:01 UTC (about 14 years ago)

GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings

Edit ? Preferences ? View ? Screen resolution ? Calibrate? ? I measured on the screen and got 424 mm horisontally and 185,5 mm vertically. The result was a resolution of 95.849?95.849 dpi. Restarted GIMP, created a new image of 100?100 mm, viewed it at 100% zoom but it was still 75?75 mm, just like before I calibrated. Does the screen resolution thing work at all? I experimented with other settings too, but still a 100?100 mm image was 75?75 mm, no matter what values I used.

The quick workaround for my screen is to view at 133% zoom, but that doesn't feel right?

Tested this at 2 different computers with the same lack of results: Ubuntu 9.10, GIMP 2.6.8
Ubuntu 10.10, GIMP 2.6.10

Am I supposed to restart Ubuntu for these settings to take place?

Ofnuts
2010-12-04 20:19:52 UTC (about 14 years ago)

GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings

On 12/04/2010 08:31 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

Edit ? Preferences ? View ? Screen resolution ? Calibrate? ? I measured on the screen and got 424 mm horisontally and 185,5 mm vertically. The result was a resolution of 95.849?95.849 dpi. Restarted GIMP, created a new image of 100?100 mm, viewed it at 100% zoom but it was still 75?75 mm, just like before I calibrated. Does the screen resolution thing work at all? I experimented with other settings too, but still a 100?100 mm image was 75?75 mm, no matter what values I used.

The quick workaround for my screen is to view at 133% zoom, but that doesn't feel right?

Tested this at 2 different computers with the same lack of results: Ubuntu 9.10, GIMP 2.6.8
Ubuntu 10.10, GIMP 2.6.10

Am I supposed to restart Ubuntu for these settings to take place?

You are looking at the wrong place; the screen resolution is one thing, but the DPI used to compute thje size of an image in pixels when you give a dimension in inches is part of the "Advanced options" in the "new image" dialog. Its default can be set in teh general preferences in the "default new image" section.

drc at shadowdrama.net (Ville P
2010-12-04 21:31:57 UTC (about 14 years ago)

GIMP ignores my screen resolution settings

On Sat, Dec 04, 2010 at 08:31:01PM +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

Edit ? Preferences ? View ? Screen resolution ? Calibrate? ? I measured on the screen and got 424 mm horisontally and 185,5 mm vertically. The result was a resolution of 95.849?95.849 dpi. Restarted GIMP, created a new image of 100?100 mm, viewed it at 100% zoom but it was still 75?75 mm, just like before I calibrated. Does the screen resolution thing work at all?

Disable "Dot for Dot". It is the second item in the view-menu.