On Saturday 10 October 2009 16:10:33 Shawn H Corey wrote:
David Knecht ATT wrote:
I am new to Inkscape and trying it out as a way of labeling
images for
publication. First, is there a way to search the archives for
answers?
Second, is there a way to get Inkscape to display the
resolution of an
image in dpi or ppi? Also, where do you adjust the ruler
settings? Dave
I'm not sure what you mean by labelling but you can create and
edit the
document's meta-data with File->Doucment Metadata...
Inkscape uses SVG, Scalable Vector Graphics. It doesn't really
have dpi
or any fixed measurements. All measurements are only
relative to
itself. Dpi only becomes important when you render the image
to a pixel
format, like PNG or JPEG.
You can change the ruler settings with the Default units in File->Document Properties...
As I understand it Inkscape can indeed import and export again bitmapped images, which is what I believe the original poster is aiming at. Chapter 18 of "The Book of Inkscape" by Dimitry Kirsanov is titled "Bitmaps." But to label bitmapped images (put a name on the image?) I suggest Gimp. That is a program that deals natively with bitmaps, and bitmaps only.
Scribus deals with either, but has only a tiny fraction of the drawing capabilities of Inkscape.
"Label images for publication" confuses several of us. Do you mean put a line of description for each image below it on a printed page? Any competent DTP program (and even some incompetent ones) can do that.