POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.newusers : DPI : Re: DPI Server Time
4 May 2024 23:43:47 EDT (-0400)
  Re: DPI  
From: Raiford, Michael
Date: 11 Dec 2014 15:29:18
Message: <5489fe9e$1@news.povray.org>
On 12/11/2014 12:05 PM, jhu wrote:
> "Jingming" <lon### [at] ymailcom> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Is it 96 DPI that the highest image resolution obtained from POV Ray? I was
>> wondering how to get an image with 300 DPI  which is normally required for
>> journal paper printing. Thanks for any help.
>>
>> Best regards
>> Jingming
>
> Just render at a higher resolution. That's pretty much all it really means.
>
> eg. if you have an 11" screen at 1366x768, that screen has a lower DPI than if
> the screen had a resolution of 1920x1080 (ok, technically it's pixels per inch
> on a monitor).
>
>

In other words, at 300dpi a 4inx6in image would be 1200x1800, the actual 
DPI setting would need to be set in another program like GIMP or 
Photoshop, if the publisher requires the DPI to be set in the image for 
proper scaling.


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