Subject: Forum activity on: smaller image size
From: [email-masked]
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2024 17:40:56 -0000

Dear Gremlin King,

A post has been edited on the topic "smaller image size" by Paddy_CAD:
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Gimp creates images from pixels, coloured tiles laid out in a square grid. Together, pixel size and pixel count determine the overall image size. Inkscape is different. It's a vector editing application where images are made from mathematical functions plotted on a geometric plane.By analogy to physical real-life painting, this infinite plane is a "canvas" and you can draw anywhere on it. A "page" is what you will print, or mount in a frame, or display in a web page. It's a rectangle stretching from (0,0) at the top left corner to an (x,y) coordinate at the bottom right.Coordinates on the svg plane have no specific length, or more accurately, you can assign them any length that suits your needs. Normally your operating system tells Inkscape the size of your display pixels and then at 100% zoom level, 100 svg units in your drawing will match 100 pixels on your screen. Knowing the size of a pixel, you can also specify lengths in real units like mm or inch or pt.Since scaling is arbitrary, how should imported pixels be handled? Your jpg file usually includes resolution (dpi) as well as pixel count (width x height). Inkscape uses these to calculate an appropriate rectangle size according to your display. If there's no resolution given, 96 dpi is assumed. The imported jpg is not resampled. Every pixel is preserved regardless of how you squeeze or stretch or rotate the image on your page.When you print your drawing or export a bitmap, Inkscape translates vector image data to any image size and any pixel density that you specify. This will resample your jpg.
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Link: http://www.inkscape.org/forums/beyond/smaller-image-size/#c69162

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