12-14-2022, 08:20 PM
Hi Rich,
Yes, the scaling is in fact a system wide setting. Unfortunately there isn't a way to set it on a per app basis. Even if there were, setting up Gimp to scale every UI element appropriately sounds like more of a hurdle than I'm able to take on at the moment.
I tried the calibration utility after setting my ppi to 267.
The rulers still display at 133ppi.
800 pixels are actually 1600 pixels or just shy of 6 inches (267x6 = 1602).
By the way, what are those arrows for on the rulers?
The instructions only say to measure the rulers.
Am I supposed to set the arrows to a pixel value and enter the length of that pixel count?
Or do I enter the length of the entire ruler?
I've left the display ppi set to 267 and if I view an image at 534ppi then it lines up nearly perfectly with the pixels on my display.
Or if I want to view the print size of an image to be printed at 300ppi, I need to do a bit of math, which isn't clear to me at the moment.
Though I'm more interested in being able to view the image at my device's native resolution because as you pointed out, the printer will scale it to whatever dimensions I choose.
Looks like I should file a bug report.
I'll install linux on this device eventually and see how that goes too.
Thanks
Yes, the scaling is in fact a system wide setting. Unfortunately there isn't a way to set it on a per app basis. Even if there were, setting up Gimp to scale every UI element appropriately sounds like more of a hurdle than I'm able to take on at the moment.
I tried the calibration utility after setting my ppi to 267.
The rulers still display at 133ppi.
800 pixels are actually 1600 pixels or just shy of 6 inches (267x6 = 1602).
By the way, what are those arrows for on the rulers?
The instructions only say to measure the rulers.
Am I supposed to set the arrows to a pixel value and enter the length of that pixel count?
Or do I enter the length of the entire ruler?
I've left the display ppi set to 267 and if I view an image at 534ppi then it lines up nearly perfectly with the pixels on my display.
Or if I want to view the print size of an image to be printed at 300ppi, I need to do a bit of math, which isn't clear to me at the moment.
Though I'm more interested in being able to view the image at my device's native resolution because as you pointed out, the printer will scale it to whatever dimensions I choose.
Looks like I should file a bug report.
I'll install linux on this device eventually and see how that goes too.
Thanks