Nicholas Shea wrote:
> "Markk" <Markk> wrote:
> 
>>I am a very new user to POVRAY.
>>
>>I have rendered and saved my image as an uncompressed Targa file. The image
>>looks great, but it is only 72 ppi. Is there a way to set the ppi during
>>rendering in POVRAY? How do people generete publication quality images with
>>POVRAY???
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>MARKk
> 
> 
> If you want to render a 10x8 inch image at 300 dpi/ppi just multiply
> the width and height of the final dimension by the required resolution.
> Thus:
> 
> 10 inches x 300 dpi = 3000 pixels wide
>  8 inches x 300 dpi = 2400 pixels wide
> 
> Now render your image setting W to 3000 and H to 2400 in your ini
> file (see the POV documentation on how to do this). In your image
> processing program, just scale the image to the required dimension in
> inches with the resolution set to 300 ppi.
> 
> Perhaps the (edited) ini file below will be of use; I use it for most of my
> work.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Nicholas
> 
Nicholas,

I've been following this thread because I've had much the same question.  Just 
no need to have it resolved so I never asked it.  Your answer cleared things up 
for me immensely.

Thanks,

Tony

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