The main reason he used 2.54  was because mick wanted the image to be 15cm 
x 21cm, which needed to be converted to inches, hence the 2.54.  Hope that 
makes sense.

Dennis Miller wrote:

> Why divide by 2.54? Won't that force the printer to interpolate?
> I tend to work at 1:1; maybe that's overkill, but for a 12" x 18" print
> with a printer of 271 dpi, I use 12 x 271 by 18 x 271.
> Just curious about the scaling factor you used..
> D.
> "Thorsten Froehlich" <tho### [at] trfde> wrote in message
> news:3c7d36f5$1@news.povray.org...
>> In article <3c7d2f14@news.povray.org> , "Mick Hazelgrove"
>> <mic### [at] mhazelgrovefsnetcouk> wrote:
>>
>> > I have to produce a rendering for a print. The final size will be !5x21
> cm
>> > and it should be 300dpi
>>
>> (5 / 2.54 * 300) x (21 / 2.54 * 300) pixels
> 
> 
> 

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