Nicolas Calimet <pov### [at] freefr> writes:

> > I know its the printing step that is the culprit, but I don't know how 
> > to fix it.  I printed some images from xv and they look like crap 
> > compared to what I see on the screen.  AFAIK screen
> > resolution is always 72 dpi regardless of how big the monitor is.
> 
> 	DON'T USE XV to print since it produces crapped ps files
> when the image is big (from my experience, don't know why).

My interpretation of the behaviour of xv is that it resizes the image in
such a way that it fits on the screen. This limits the resolution (in terms
of pixels) to the resolution of the screen.

> 	Use The Gimp or other image manipulation system.

I second this.

Thomas

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